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Krasnoperekopsk fire, 22 July 2026 Красноперекопський район · Krasnoperekopsk

Out · last measured on 14 Aug 2026

The fire started on 22 July 2026 in Krasnoperekopsk, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 24 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 299 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 25th largest in Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 2016 (of 100 with a page). Number 284 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
299ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
24days
22 Jul 2026 – 14 Aug 2026
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
22 Jul
2026
Danger at start
22
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

35°high
58km/h · peak gust
30%lowest humidity

It had gone 11 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 19 Aug.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Krasnoperekopsk Красноперекопський район 26,642 inhabitants · 16.1 km from the centre where it started
    299 ha
    0.2 %

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 areas94 %
  • Other natural land6.3 %

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)
22 Jul 29.2 °C 33 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
23 Jul 23.8 °C 59 % 44 km/h 9.8 mm Very low 4
24 Jul 24.4 °C 51 % 36 km/h 0.6 mm Low 7
25 Jul 25.8 °C 55 % 34 km/h 4.1 mm Very low 3
26 Jul 27.9 °C 41 % 33 km/h 0.7 mm Low 10
27 Jul 29.4 °C 35 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
28 Jul 29.1 °C 40 % 39 km/h 5.2 mm Very low 4
29 Jul 25.7 °C 36 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
30 Jul 27.2 °C 38 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
31 Jul 29.4 °C 34 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
1 Aug 29.9 °C 40 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
2 Aug 31.3 °C 41 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
3 Aug 30.7 °C 41 % 45 km/h 0.3 mm High 26
4 Aug 31.6 °C 41 % 39 km/h 0.5 mm High 25
5 Aug 32.7 °C 37 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
6 Aug 34.6 °C 34 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
7 Aug 31.7 °C 42 % 58 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
8 Aug 31.5 °C 42 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
9 Aug 31.6 °C 47 % 39 km/h 1.5 mm Moderate 18
10 Aug 32.3 °C 45 % 27 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 21
11 Aug 33.3 °C 41 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
12 Aug 31.5 °C 41 % 39 km/h 0.6 mm High 28
13 Aug 25.6 °C 32 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
14 Aug 26.4 °C 30 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
15 Aug after 25.8 °C 31 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
16 Aug after 27.9 °C 32 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
17 Aug after 29.4 °C 27 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
18 Aug after 31.7 °C 28 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
19 Aug after 24.5 °C 66 % 26 km/h 1.3 mm Low 9

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Jul 2026
After · 21 Aug 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 24 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 11 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak11 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1016 µg/m³
Optical depth0.44
202122232425
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 Krasnoperekopsk fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 22 July 2026 to 14 August 2026 (24 days). The perimeter dates it from 22 July 2026 to 22 July 2026.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 299 hectares (3.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Krasnoperekopsk (299 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Krasnoperekopsk and came within 16.1 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 34.6 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 58 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 37, 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 ›

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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 22 July 2026 to 22 July 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.