How long did the Izium fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 1 May 2025 to 5 May 2025 (5 days). The perimeter dates it from 1 May 2025 to 3 May 2025.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 120 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Izium (119 ha, 0.1 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 15.3 km of Izium. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 23.5 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, 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.

UA · Ukraine · 2025-05-01 → 2025-05-05

Izium fire, May 2025 Ізюмський район · Izium

Out · last detection 5 May 2025, 09:07 UTC

The fire started on 1 May 2025 in Izium, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 120 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 433th largest in Kharkiv Oblast since 2016 (of 558 with a page). Number 1120 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.

The power measured by the satellite is low (10.2 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

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Burnt area: 120ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 5days; 1 May 2025 – 5 May 2025
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 1 May; 2025
Heat detections: 3; in a single hotspot: 10 MW
Danger at start: 28; High · FWI index
Average daily power: 6MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 May5 May

Play back 5 May 2025

How it evolved, day by day

1 May 3 May 5 May

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

The weather it burned in

24°high

48km/h · peak gust

14%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 8.9 mm on 7 May.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

Izium Ізюмський район 17,029 inhabitants · 15.3 km from the town where it started

119 ha reached on 1 May

0.1 %

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

What burned

Agricultural areas86 %
Other natural land8.5 %
Mixed forest5.9 %

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

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)
1 May	23.5 °C	21 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
2 May	15.9 °C	22 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
3 May	20.6 °C	14 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
4 May	24.4 °C	16 %	46 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
5 May	23.5 °C	30 %	43 km/h	0.1 mm	High 29
6 May after	23.5 °C	35 %	31 km/h	0.1 mm	High 25
7 May after	22.5 °C	47 %	41 km/h	8.9 mm	Very low 2

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 24 Apr 2025

After · 12 May 2025

Before After

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

PM2.5 peak12 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1014 µg/m³

Optical depth0.70

2930123456

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 · 3Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Izium fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 1 May 2025 to 5 May 2025 (5 days). The perimeter dates it from 1 May 2025 to 3 May 2025.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 120 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Izium (119 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 15.3 km of Izium. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 23.5 °C, humidity dropped to 14 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, 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.

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

ДСНС · State Emergency Service ↗

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EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

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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 1 May 2025 to 3 May 2025. 3 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.

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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.

Where it burned