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Mahdalynivka fire, 22 August 2025 Магдалинівський район · Mahdalynivka, Mashivka

Out · last measured on 22 Aug 2025

The fire started on 22 August 2025 in Mahdalynivka, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 124 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 143th largest in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast since 2016 (of 183 with a page). Number 1075 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1358.

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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
124ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
22 Aug 2025 – 22 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
22 Aug
2025
Danger at start
65
Extreme · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

32°high
52km/h · peak gust
28%lowest humidity

It had gone 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 21.7 mm on 23 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. Mahdalynivka Магдалинівський район 33,622 inhabitants · 19.8 km from the centre where it started
    105 ha
    0.1 %
  2. Mashivka Машівський район 23.9 km from the centre
    20 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 land74 %
  • Agricultural areas24 %
  • Mixed forest1.6 %

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)

Started with Extreme FWI: 28 % of the area in Ukraine Strong wind: 20 % of the area in Ukraine

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
22 Aug 32.0 °C 28 % 52 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 65
23 Aug after 22.1 °C 59 % 41 km/h 21.7 mm Very low 0

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 64.6, a minimum humidity of 28% and 10 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2020: 34.

FWI at the start 64.6
Minimum humidity 28 %
Days without rain 10
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Nikopol fire, July 2025
101 ha 3 days FWI 64.1 Min. humidity 28 % 158 km away, in 2025

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.

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What happened to them

3 days
median duration
171 ha
median area
0 %
went past 1,000 ha
4.7 mm
rain at the end (median; 14 of 34 had it)

It burned an area similar to its twins (124 ha against a median of 171 ha) and lasted 1 day, against 3 days.

In 20 of 34, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 4.7 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

21.7 mmfirst rain
23 Augthe day after it ended
52km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 22 Aug, and on 23 Aug 21.7 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 14 of 34, with a median of 4.7 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2020.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Aug 2025
After · 29 Aug 2025

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 22 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 26 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak26 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1033 µg/m³
Optical depth0.49
20 Aug22 Aug24 Aug
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 Mahdalynivka fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 22 August 2025 and 22 August 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 124 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Mahdalynivka (105 ha, 0.1 %); Mashivka (20 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Mahdalynivka and came within 19.8 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 32.0 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 65, class Extreme.
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.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2020 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 34. Their median duration was 3 days and their median area 171 ha; 0 % went past 1,000 ha. In 20 of 34, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 4.7 mm.

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

No changes since 24 October 2026.

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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. 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.