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Holo Prystan fire, 6 June 2025 Скадовський район · Holo Prystan

Out · last detection 11 Jun 2025, 10:53 UTC

The fire started on 6 June 2025 in Holo Prystan, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 3,629 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

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Burnt area
3,629ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
6days
6 Jun 2025 – 11 Jun 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
6 Jun
2025
Heat detections
84
in a single hotspot: 32 MW
Danger at start
16
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
119MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Jun11 Jun
11 Jun 2025

How it evolved, day by day

6 Jun 2025 · 6 MW · 1 9 Jun 2025 · 59 MW · 36 10 Jun 2025 · 376 MW · 40 11 Jun 2025 · 36 MW · 7
6 Jun 9 Jun 10 Jun 11 Jun

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

31°high
47km/h · peak gust
29%lowest humidity

It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.0 mm on 15 Jun.

This area had burned before

56% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 48 ha in 2021, 1,774 ha in 2023, 535 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,035 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 2.3% of the area of London (36 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Holo Prystan Скадовський район 127,000 inhabitants · 52.8 km from the centre where it started
    55 ha reached on 9 Jun
    0.0 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Other natural land97 %
  • Agricultural areas3.0 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
6 Jun 27.6 °C 38 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
7 Jun 27.4 °C 46 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
8 Jun 29.7 °C 35 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
9 Jun 30.9 °C 31 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
10 Jun 26.6 °C 30 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
11 Jun 26.7 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
12 Jun after 24.5 °C 41 % 44 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 21
13 Jun after 23.4 °C 35 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
14 Jun after 21.8 °C 54 % 43 km/h 0.9 mm Moderate 14
15 Jun after 22.3 °C 55 % 56 km/h 4.0 mm Low 6

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 15.5, a minimum humidity of 38% and 8 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2017: 67.

FWI at the start 15.5
Minimum humidity 38 %
Days without rain 8
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Holo Prystan fire, May 2024
255 ha 1 day FWI 12.4 Min. humidity 38 % 24 km away, in 2024

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.7 mm on 26 May.

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What happened to them

5 days
median duration
189 ha
median area
7 %
went past 1,000 ha
3.7 mm
rain at the end (median; 56 of 67 had it)

It was 19.2 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 6 days, against 5 days.

None of its 67 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 11 of 67, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 3.7 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

4.0 mmfirst rain
15 Jun4 days after it ended
47km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 11 Jun, and on 15 Jun 4.0 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 56 of 67, with a median of 3.7 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2017.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 30 May 2025
After · 18 Jun 2025

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 12 June 2025 the air beside the fire reached 13 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak13 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1014 µg/m³
Optical depth0.88
8 Jun10 Jun12 Jun14 Jun
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 84Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Holo Prystan fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 6 June 2025 to 11 June 2025 (6 days). The perimeter dates it from 10 June 2025 to 11 June 2025.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 3,629 hectares (36.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Holo Prystan (55 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Holo Prystan and came within 52.8 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 30.9 °C, humidity dropped to 29 % and gusts hit 47 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Ukraine (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2017 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 67. Their median duration was 5 days and their median area 189 ha; 7 % went past 1,000 ha. None of its 67 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 11 of 67, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 3.7 mm.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 101 · 112 · Emergency number and official warnings

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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 10 June 2025 to 11 June 2025. 84 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
  • Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology

Where this data comes from

The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.