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Izium fire, June 2026 Ізюмський район · Izium

Out · last detection 28 Jun 2026, 23:54 UTC

The fire started on 28 June 2026 in Izium, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 204 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 200th largest in Kharkiv Oblast since 2016 (of 558 with a page). Number 434 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

The power measured by the satellite is low (28.5 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
204ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
28 Jun 2026 – 28 Jun 2026
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
28 Jun
2026
Heat detections
8
in a single hotspot: 28 MW
Danger at start
14
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
27MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 28 Jun28 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

28

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

The weather it burned in

25°high
40km/h · peak gust
49%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 9.0 mm on 4 Jul.

This area had burned before

10% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 21 ha in 2022.

What happened to each town

  1. Izium Ізюмський район 17,029 inhabitants · 15.5 km from the town where it started
    203 ha reached on 28 Jun
    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

  • Coniferous forest70 %
  • Mixed forest26 %
  • Other natural land3.4 %
  • Artificial surfaces1.0 %

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)
28 Jun 24.7 °C 49 % 40 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 14
29 Jun after 27.2 °C 36 % 35 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 18
30 Jun after 28.2 °C 41 % 29 km/h 0.7 mm Moderate 15
1 Jul after 30.3 °C 37 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
2 Jul after 32.3 °C 33 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
3 Jul after 33.9 °C 27 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
4 Jul after 29.8 °C 38 % 39 km/h 9.0 mm Low 5

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 21 Jun 2026
After · 5 Jul 2026

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 1 July 2026 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
PM1015 µg/m³
Optical depth0.32
26272829301
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 · 8Every 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 Izium fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 28 June 2026 and 28 June 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 204 hectares (2.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Izium (203 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 15.5 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 24.7 °C, humidity dropped to 49 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 14, class Moderate.
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.

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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.