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Kakhovka fire, 9 June 2026 Каховський район · Kakhovka

Out · last measured on 23 Jun 2026

The fire started on 9 June 2026 in Kakhovka, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 15 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 153 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 768th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 618 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

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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
153ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
15days
9 Jun 2026 – 23 Jun 2026
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
9 Jun
2026
Danger at start
4
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

32°high
42km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 83 ha in 2023, 42 ha in 2024, 152 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 153 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Kakhovka Каховський район 31.6 km from the centre where it started
    153 ha
    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

  • Agricultural areas60 %
  • Other natural land36 %
  • Artificial surfaces4.0 %

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)
9 Jun 26.0 °C 44 % 30 km/h 1.9 mm Very low 4
10 Jun 27.5 °C 44 % 19 km/h 1.2 mm Very low 5
11 Jun 26.7 °C 53 % 18 km/h 0.3 mm Low 8
12 Jun 26.9 °C 50 % 27 km/h 0.1 mm Low 11
13 Jun 22.4 °C 64 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
14 Jun 25.0 °C 37 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
15 Jun 23.8 °C 47 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
16 Jun 24.8 °C 41 % 32 km/h 5.5 mm Very low 3
17 Jun 28.5 °C 27 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
18 Jun 23.3 °C 50 % 24 km/h 1.6 mm Very low 5
19 Jun 26.3 °C 37 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
20 Jun 29.5 °C 30 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
21 Jun 28.8 °C 34 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
22 Jun 31.4 °C 25 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
23 Jun 32.4 °C 35 % 29 km/h 1.5 mm Moderate 16
24 Jun after 31.0 °C 37 % 24 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 20
25 Jun after 31.5 °C 28 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
26 Jun after 28.8 °C 35 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
27 Jun after 28.6 °C 29 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
28 Jun after 33.8 °C 29 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
29 Jun after 31.8 °C 28 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
30 Jun after 35.3 °C 36 % 29 km/h 0.5 mm High 30
1 Jul after 33.0 °C 33 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
2 Jul after 34.1 °C 27 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
3 Jul after 34.2 °C 26 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 29

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 4.3, a minimum humidity of 44% and 1 day without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2022: 29.

FWI at the start 4.3
Minimum humidity 44 %
Days without rain 1
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Oleshky fire, April 2022
535 ha 2 days FWI 4.0 Min. humidity 46 % 25 km away, in 2022

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.5 mm on 29 Apr.

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What happened to them

1 day
median duration
151 ha
median area
7 %
went past 1,000 ha
2.5 mm
rain at the end (median; 25 of 29 had it)

It burned an area similar to its twins (153 ha against a median of 151 ha) and lasted 15 days, against 1 day.

In 4 of 29, 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 2.5 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

—first rain
—no rain in ten days
42km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 23 Jun, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 25 of 29, with a median of 2.5 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 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 · 2 Jun 2026
After · 30 Jun 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 7 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 10 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak10 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1015 µg/m³
Optical depth0.52
7 Jun9 Jun11 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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Kakhovka fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 9 June 2026 to 23 June 2026 (15 days). The perimeter dates it from 9 June 2026 to 9 June 2026.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 153 hectares (1.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Kakhovka (153 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Kakhovka and came within 31.6 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 32.4 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 25, 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 2022 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 29. Their median duration was 1 day and their median area 151 ha; 7 % went past 1,000 ha. In 4 of 29, 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 2.5 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

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.

RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version

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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 9 June 2026 to 9 June 2026. 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.

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.