Kalanchak fire, September 2025 Каланчацький район · Kalanchak
The fire started on 13 September 2025 in Kalanchak, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 458 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 234th largest in Kherson Oblast since 2016 (of 1103 with a page). Number 201 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.
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- Burnt area
- 458ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 13 Sept 2025 – 13 Sept 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 13 Sept
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 31
- in a single hotspot: 207 MW
- Danger at start
- 24
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 2.1GW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
13 Sept 2025 · 2,069 MW · 31
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.6 mm on 18 Sept.
This area had burned before
16% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 71 ha in 2024.
What happened to each town
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458 ha reached on 13 Sept0.4 %
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
- Other natural land64 %
- Agricultural areas33 %
- Mixed forest3.0 %
- Other land cover0.7 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Sept | 22.9 °C | 35 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 14 Sept after | 23.9 °C | 36 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 15 Sept after | 24.4 °C | 42 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 16 Sept after | 24.7 °C | 41 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 17 Sept after | 23.9 °C | 46 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 18 Sept after | 17.0 °C | 75 % | 58 km/h | 6.6 mm | Very low 1 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 12 September 2025 the air beside the fire reached 8 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
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 · 31Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 1,628 haKalanchak Каланчацький район16 August 2023 · 5 days · 14 km away
- 1,946 haKalanchak Каланчацький район29 August 2026 · 4 days · 19 km away
- 1,557 haSkadovsk Скадовський район4 August 2023 · 4 days · 31 km away
- 2,823 haOleshky Олешківський район6 June 2025 · 4 days · 34 km away
- 2,150 haOleshky Олешківський район13 September 2023 · 7 days · 34 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Kalanchak fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 13 September 2025 and 13 September 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 458 hectares (4.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Kalanchak (458 ha, 0.4 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Kalanchak and came within 12.8 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 22.9 °C, humidity dropped to 35 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 24, 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 · 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. 31 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.
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.