How long did the Makedonski Brod fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 2 July 2025 to 10 July 2025 (9 days). The perimeter dates it from 2 July 2025 to 5 July 2025.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 3,768 hectares (37.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 3 municipalities: Makedonski Brod (3,656 ha, 4.1 %); Dolneni (67 ha, 0.2 %); Chashka (45 ha, 0.0 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The fire started in Makedonski Brod and came within 5.1 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 27.3 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 31 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, class High.

Where does this data come from?

From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of North Macedonia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

MK · North Macedonia · 2025-07-02 → 2025-07-10

Makedonski Brod fire, 2 July 2025 Општина Македонски Брод · Makedonski Brod, Dolneni, Chashka

Out · last detection 10 Jul 2025, 00:26 UTC

The fire started on 2 July 2025 in Makedonski Brod, North Macedonia, and satellites saw it burning for 9 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 3,768 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the 2th largest in Southwest since 2016 (of 62 with a page). Number 2 in North Macedonia in 2025, of 37.

The power measured by the satellite is low (19.2 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: 3,768ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 9days; 2 Jul 2025 – 10 Jul 2025
Municipalities hit: 3; municipalities
Started on: 2 Jul; 2025
Heat detections: 50; in a single hotspot: 19 MW
Danger at start: 20; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 26MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Jul10 Jul

Play back 10 Jul 2025

How it evolved, day by day

3 Jul 4 Jul 5 Jul 7 Jul 8 Jul 9 Jul 10 Jul

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

The weather it burned in

27°high

31km/h · peak gust

16%lowest humidity

It had gone 11 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.8 mm on 15 Jul.

This area had burned before

1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 48 ha in 2021.

48 ha Makedonski Brod fire, November 2021 109 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 2.4% of the area of London (38 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

Makedonski Brod Општина Македонски Брод 5,889 inhabitants · 5.1 km from the centre where it started

3,656 ha reached on 3 Jul

4.1 %
Dolneni Општина Долнени 13,126 inhabitants · 15.7 km from the centre

67 ha

0.2 %
Chashka Општина Чашка 7,942 inhabitants · 28.4 km from the centre

45 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 land36 %
Scrub and transitional woodland32 %
Broadleaved forest30 %
Agricultural areas2.3 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

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)
2 Jul	25.0 °C	23 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
3 Jul	26.2 °C	20 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
4 Jul	27.3 °C	16 %	26 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
5 Jul	26.9 °C	23 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 30
6 Jul	27.3 °C	23 %	35 km/h	0.2 mm	High 34
7 Jul	27.7 °C	18 %	53 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
8 Jul	25.7 °C	30 %	63 km/h	0.0 mm	High 37
9 Jul	21.6 °C	29 %	67 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 44
10 Jul	16.7 °C	36 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
11 Jul after	18.5 °C	29 %	40 km/h	0.1 mm	High 30
12 Jul after	21.5 °C	29 %	37 km/h	0.0 mm	High 31
13 Jul after	25.1 °C	22 %	38 km/h	0.0 mm	High 33
14 Jul after	26.1 °C	24 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	High 32
15 Jul after	22.9 °C	37 %	31 km/h	2.8 mm	Very low 4

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 25 Jun 2025

After · 17 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 8 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak12 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1017 µg/m³

Optical depth0.33

3012345678

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)

Detections table · 50Every 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 Makedonski Brod fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 2 July 2025 to 10 July 2025 (9 days). The perimeter dates it from 2 July 2025 to 5 July 2025.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 3,768 hectares (37.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 3 municipalities: Makedonski Brod (3,656 ha, 4.1 %); Dolneni (67 ha, 0.2 %); Chashka (45 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The fire started in Makedonski Brod and came within 5.1 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 27.3 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 31 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, class High.
Where does this data come from?: From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of North Macedonia (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: 193 · 112 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

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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 2 July 2025 to 5 July 2025. 50 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 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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