How long did the Kreminna fire last?

The official perimeter only gives the start date (6 August 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 2 September 2026 (28 days from 6 August 2026), the last day with detections before more than 10 days in a row without any, so it is approximate.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 132 hectares (1.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Kreminna (132 ha, 0.1 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The fire started in Kreminna and came within 15.1 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 35.2 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, class Very 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.

UA · Ukraine · 2026-08-06 → 2026-09-02

Kreminna fire, 6 August 2026 Кремінський район · Kreminna

Out · last detection 8 Aug 2026, 10:32 UTC

The fire started on 6 August 2026 in Kreminna, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 28 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 132 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 686th largest in Luhansk Oblast since 2016 (of 909 with a page). Number 724 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

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Burnt area: 132ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: ≈ 28days; 6 Aug 2026 – 2 Sept 2026
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 6 Aug; 2026
Heat detections: 31; in a single hotspot: 53 MW
Danger at start: 18; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 145MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Aug2 Sept

Play back 8 Aug 2026

How it evolved, day by day

6 Aug 7 Aug 8 Aug

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

The weather it burned in

35°high

48km/h · peak gust

15%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.8 mm on 6 Sept.

This area had burned before

71% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 29 ha in 2022, 19 ha in 2023, 74 ha in 2024, 1 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 94 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

Kreminna Кремінський район 41,084 inhabitants · 15.1 km from the centre where it started

132 ha reached on 6 Aug

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

Coniferous forest99 %
Mixed forest0.8 %

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)
6 Aug	34.2 °C	28 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
7 Aug	35.2 °C	28 %	16 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
8 Aug	34.0 °C	29 %	27 km/h	0.1 mm	High 23
9 Aug	31.8 °C	47 %	38 km/h	1.5 mm	Moderate 13
10 Aug	28.9 °C	39 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
11 Aug	31.5 °C	38 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
12 Aug	28.3 °C	32 %	38 km/h	0.2 mm	High 23
13 Aug	23.2 °C	31 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
14 Aug	22.2 °C	32 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
15 Aug	23.8 °C	30 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
16 Aug	28.3 °C	32 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
17 Aug	30.3 °C	29 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
18 Aug	32.5 °C	20 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
19 Aug	27.6 °C	42 %	33 km/h	1.5 mm	Moderate 15
20 Aug	27.4 °C	31 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
21 Aug	32.4 °C	26 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
22 Aug	34.2 °C	25 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
23 Aug	34.3 °C	18 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
24 Aug	27.0 °C	27 %	43 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 42
25 Aug	26.2 °C	26 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
26 Aug	27.4 °C	30 %	33 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
27 Aug	19.0 °C	66 %	31 km/h	2.5 mm	Low 6
28 Aug	23.9 °C	47 %	48 km/h	1.4 mm	Moderate 12
29 Aug	28.0 °C	32 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
30 Aug	27.4 °C	26 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
31 Aug	27.4 °C	15 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
1 Sept	28.8 °C	16 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
2 Sept	29.7 °C	20 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
3 Sept after	26.8 °C	36 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
4 Sept after	27.0 °C	33 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	High 27
5 Sept after	29.9 °C	23 %	55 km/h	0.2 mm	Very high 45
6 Sept after	22.7 °C	36 %	34 km/h	6.8 mm	Low 5

Before and after, from space

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Before · 30 Jul 2026

After · 9 Sept 2026

Before After

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 6 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 14 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak14 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1017 µg/m³

Optical depth0.57

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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.

⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.

Date and time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Kreminna fire last?: The official perimeter only gives the start date (6 August 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 2 September 2026 (28 days from 6 August 2026), the last day with detections before more than 10 days in a row without any, so it is approximate.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 132 hectares (1.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Kreminna (132 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The fire started in Kreminna and came within 15.1 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 35.2 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, class Very 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.
The official perimeter has no end date: the end is the last day with VIIRS detections inside the perimeter before a gap of more than 10 days (150 days at most), so it is approximate. 31 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

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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.

Where it burned