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Jurilovca fire, July 2025 Jurilovca

Out · last measured on 31 Jul 2025

The fire started on 30 July 2025 in Jurilovca, Romania, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 106 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

This record is fire in the reed beds of the Danube Delta, not a forest fire. Thousands of hectares of reed burn in the delta every year, mostly between January and April, and many of these burns are deliberate. That is why it is left out of the fire rankings.

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We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
106ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
30 Jul 2025 – 31 Jul 2025
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
30 Jul
2025
Danger at start
18
Moderate · FWI index
Natura 2000
39%
of the perimeter is protected land

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

29°high
38km/h · peak gust
38%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

16% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2 ha in 2020, 15 ha in 2023.

What happened to each town

  1. Jurilovca 3,694 inhabitants · 11.0 km from the centre where it started
    107 ha
    0.4 %

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

  • Agricultural areas92 %
  • Other natural land7.8 %

Natura 2000 protected area affected: 39 %

Natura 2000 sites (European Environment Agency, 2024 release) crossed by the perimeter.

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

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)
30 Jul 28.1 °C 44 % 38 km/h 0.4 mm Moderate 18
31 Jul 29.1 °C 38 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
1 Aug after 30.1 °C 29 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
2 Aug after 31.0 °C 31 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
3 Aug after 31.8 °C 31 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
4 Aug after 32.5 °C 31 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
5 Aug after 32.9 °C 33 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
6 Aug after 33.4 °C 30 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
7 Aug after 30.7 °C 36 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
8 Aug after 29.4 °C 27 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
9 Aug after 32.3 °C 26 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
10 Aug after 32.1 °C 34 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 37

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 23 Jul 2025
After · 7 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 29 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
PM1019 µg/m³
Optical depth0.43
28293031123
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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Jurilovca fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 30 July 2025 and 31 July 2025: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 106 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Jurilovca (107 ha, 0.4 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Jurilovca and came within 11.0 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 29.1 °C, humidity dropped to 38 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 23, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Romania (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: 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.

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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. No 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.
  • Probably a vegetation burn: not counted in the totals.

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 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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.