How long did the Lenine fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 29 August 2025 to 30 August 2025 (2 days). The perimeter dates it from 30 August 2025 to 30 August 2025.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 318 hectares (3.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 28.3 °C, humidity dropped to 48 % and gusts hit 41 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, 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.

UA · Ukraine · 2025-08-29 → 2025-08-30

Lenine fire, 29 August 2025 Ленінський район · Ukraine

Out · last detection 30 Aug 2025, 10:53 UTC

The fire started on 29 August 2025 in Lenine, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 318 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 24th largest in Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 2016 (of 100 with a page). Number 364 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.

The power measured by the satellite is low (8.6 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: 318ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 2days; 29 Aug 2025 – 30 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit: 0; districts
Started on: 29 Aug; 2025
Heat detections: 8; in a single hotspot: 9 MW
Danger at start: 34; High · FWI index
Average daily power: 22MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Aug30 Aug

Play back 30 Aug 2025

How it evolved, day by day

29 Aug 30 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

28°high

41km/h · peak gust

48%lowest humidity

It had gone 26 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.8 mm on 9 Sept.

This area had burned before

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

What burned

Other natural land98 %
Agricultural areas1.2 %
Other land cover0.6 %

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)
30 Aug	28.3 °C	48 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	High 34
31 Aug after	28.9 °C	53 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 25
1 Sept after	28.4 °C	54 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	High 22
2 Sept after	26.2 °C	56 %	25 km/h	0.6 mm	Moderate 18
3 Sept after	29.6 °C	46 %	35 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
4 Sept after	26.1 °C	45 %	42 km/h	0.0 mm	High 29
5 Sept after	24.6 °C	45 %	48 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
6 Sept after	22.8 °C	51 %	55 km/h	0.0 mm	High 35
7 Sept after	23.6 °C	48 %	56 km/h	0.0 mm	High 36
8 Sept after	25.8 °C	49 %	49 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
9 Sept after	22.6 °C	66 %	45 km/h	4.8 mm	Low 7

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 22 Aug 2025

After · 6 Sept 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 1 September 2025 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

PM1022 µg/m³

Optical depth0.34

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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 · 8Every 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?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 29 August 2025 to 30 August 2025 (2 days). The perimeter dates it from 30 August 2025 to 30 August 2025.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 318 hectares (3.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 28.3 °C, humidity dropped to 48 % and gusts hit 41 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, 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.

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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 30 August 2025 to 30 August 2025. 8 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