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Holo Prystan fire, 28 July 2025 Скадовський район · Holo Prystan

Out · last detection 28 Jul 2025, 11:12 UTC

The fire started on 28 July 2025 in Holo Prystan, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 487 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 214th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1102 with a page). Number 183 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1358.

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Suggestions: Kakhovka · 2025Skadovsk · 2024Holo Prystan · 2024Holo Prystan · 2023

Burnt area
487ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
28 Jul 2025 – 28 Jul 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
28 Jul
2025
Heat detections
27
in a single hotspot: 49 MW
Danger at start
76
Very extreme · FWI index
Average daily power
292MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Jul28 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

28 Jul 2025 · 292 MW · 27

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

The weather it burned in

35°high
54km/h · peak gust
38%lowest humidity

It had gone 29 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

67% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 172 ha in 2023, 223 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 328 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Holo Prystan Скадовський район 127,000 inhabitants · 52.3 km from the centre where it started
    279 ha reached on 28 Jul
    0.1 %

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 land65 %
  • Agricultural areas35 %

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 area1.1 ha
Residents≈ 20

Inside the perimeter there were about 1.1 hectares of built-up land and about 20 residents (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)

Started with Extreme FWI: 28 % of the area in Ukraine Strong wind: 20 % of the area in Ukraine

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
28 Jul 34.7 °C 38 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 76
29 Jul after 34.0 °C 40 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
30 Jul after 28.8 °C 53 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
31 Jul after 29.3 °C 33 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
1 Aug after 29.2 °C 28 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
2 Aug after 31.3 °C 29 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
3 Aug after 31.9 °C 30 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
4 Aug after 31.1 °C 40 % 30 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 39
5 Aug after 33.0 °C 30 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
6 Aug after 35.4 °C 25 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
7 Aug after 31.4 °C 41 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 75.9, a minimum humidity of 38% and 29 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2022: 6.

FWI at the start 75.9
Minimum humidity 38 %
Days without rain 29
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Kakhovka fire, August 2025
169 ha 2 days FWI 65.4 Min. humidity 34 % 137 km away, in 2025

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.

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What happened to them

Fires in the area that started in similar weather: 6. With fewer than 15 we give no figures: they would be more noise than signal.

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

—first rain
—no rain in ten days
54km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 28 Jul, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain.

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 2022.
  • 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 · 21 Jul 2025
After · 4 Aug 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 28 July 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
PM1018 µg/m³
Optical depth0.41
26 Jul28 Jul30 Jul
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 · 27Every 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?
Copernicus dates it between 28 July 2025 and 28 July 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 487 hectares (4.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Holo Prystan (279 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Holo Prystan and came within 52.3 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 34.7 °C, humidity dropped to 38 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 76, class Very extreme.
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.

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

Satellite cross-check

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

No changes since 24 October 2026.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 27 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.