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Lenine fire, 30 June 2026 Ленінський район · Lenine

Out · last measured on 30 Jul 2026

The fire started on 30 June 2026 in Lenine, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 31 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 158 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 70th largest in Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 2016 (of 100 with a page). Number 596 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
158ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
31days
30 Jun 2026 – 30 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
30 Jun
2026
Danger at start
18
Moderate · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

29°high
48km/h · peak gust
40%lowest humidity

It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Lenine Ленінський район 60,327 inhabitants · 58.8 km from the centre where it started
    158 ha
    0.0 %

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 land91 %
  • Agricultural areas9.0 %

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 Jun 28.4 °C 51 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
1 Jul 28.2 °C 49 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
2 Jul 28.7 °C 44 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
3 Jul 27.2 °C 52 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
4 Jul 27.9 °C 55 % 43 km/h 1.9 mm Moderate 13
5 Jul 24.7 °C 42 % 48 km/h 2.9 mm Low 10
6 Jul 26.4 °C 40 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
7 Jul 26.8 °C 40 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
8 Jul 27.1 °C 46 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
9 Jul 26.6 °C 47 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
10 Jul 24.7 °C 59 % 38 km/h 0.8 mm Moderate 13
11 Jul 25.8 °C 43 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
12 Jul 26.5 °C 49 % 26 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 18
13 Jul 26.7 °C 43 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
14 Jul 26.4 °C 49 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
15 Jul 26.1 °C 59 % 32 km/h 1.3 mm Moderate 12
16 Jul 27.5 °C 51 % 23 km/h 0.6 mm Moderate 14
17 Jul 25.7 °C 53 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
18 Jul 24.0 °C 50 % 37 km/h 0.1 mm High 21
19 Jul 25.8 °C 49 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
20 Jul 27.8 °C 47 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
21 Jul 28.8 °C 49 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
22 Jul 26.7 °C 63 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
23 Jul 24.2 °C 71 % 24 km/h 9.1 mm Very low 0
24 Jul 24.4 °C 59 % 36 km/h 1.2 mm Very low 5
25 Jul 22.7 °C 71 % 35 km/h 5.3 mm Very low 1
26 Jul 23.8 °C 66 % 45 km/h 11.2 mm Very low 1
27 Jul 26.2 °C 51 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
28 Jul 25.8 °C 56 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
29 Jul 23.6 °C 44 % 44 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 15
30 Jul 24.8 °C 44 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
31 Jul after 25.1 °C 52 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
1 Aug after 27.1 °C 55 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
2 Aug after 28.1 °C 53 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
3 Aug after 28.7 °C 50 % 46 km/h 0.3 mm High 22
4 Aug after 26.6 °C 65 % 32 km/h 0.9 mm Low 9
5 Aug after 28.0 °C 55 % 32 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 14
6 Aug after 30.0 °C 51 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
7 Aug after 30.1 °C 52 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
8 Aug after 28.2 °C 51 % 41 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 18
9 Aug after 29.5 °C 56 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 23 Jun 2026
After · 6 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 3 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 9 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak9 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1013 µg/m³
Optical depth0.33
282930123
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 Lenine fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 30 June 2026 to 30 July 2026 (31 days). The perimeter dates it from 30 June 2026 to 30 June 2026.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 158 hectares (1.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Lenine (158 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Lenine and came within 58.8 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 28.8 °C, humidity dropped to 40 % and gusts hit 48 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.

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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

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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 June 2026 to 30 June 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.