How long did the Lenine fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 26 June 2025 and 26 June 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 689 hectares (6.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Lenine (687 ha, 0.2 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 29.5 km of Lenine. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 27.7 °C, humidity dropped to 50 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 12, class Moderate.

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 · 2025-06-26 → 2025-06-26

Lenine fire, 26 June 2025 Ленінський район · Lenine

Out · last detection 26 Jun 2025, 11:12 UTC

The fire started on 26 June 2025 in Lenine, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 689 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 9th largest in Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 2016 (of 100 with a page). Number 99 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.

The power measured by the satellite is low (14.0 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

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Burnt area: 689ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 1day; 26 Jun 2025 – 26 Jun 2025
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 26 Jun; 2025
Heat detections: 2; in a single hotspot: 14 MW
Danger at start: 12; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 22MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 26 Jun26 Jun

How it evolved, day by day

26 Jun 2025 · 22 MW · 2

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

The weather it burned in

28°high

35km/h · peak gust

50%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 3.6 mm on 28 Jun.

This area had burned before

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

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 0.4% of the area of London (6.9 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

Lenine Ленінський район 60,327 inhabitants · 29.5 km from the town where it started

687 ha reached on 26 Jun

0.2 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

Other natural land100 %

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)
26 Jun	27.7 °C	50 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 12
27 Jun after	24.4 °C	47 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 12
28 Jun after	25.2 °C	42 %	37 km/h	3.6 mm	Very low 5

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 19 Jun 2025

After · 3 Jul 2025

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 28 June 2025 the air beside the fire reached 7 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak7 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1010 µg/m³

Optical depth0.43

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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 · 2Every 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 Lenine fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 26 June 2025 and 26 June 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 689 hectares (6.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Lenine (687 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 29.5 km of Lenine. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 27.7 °C, humidity dropped to 50 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 12, class Moderate.
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

ДСНС · State Emergency Service ↗

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

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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. 2 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.

Where it burned