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Marinka fire, March 2026 Мар'їнський район · Marinka

Out · last measured on 10 Mar 2026

The fire started on 10 March 2026 in Marinka, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 128 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 737th largest in Donetsk Oblast since 2016 (of 1004 with a page). Number 751 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
128ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
10 Mar 2026 – 10 Mar 2026
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
10 Mar
2026
Danger at start
2
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

13°high
24km/h · peak gust
37%lowest humidity

It had gone 11 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.6 mm on 17 Mar.

This area had burned before

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

What happened to each town

  1. Marinka Мар'їнський район 90,434 inhabitants · 19.2 km from the centre where it started
    128 ha
    0.1 %

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

  • Agricultural areas83 %
  • Other natural land9.5 %
  • Mixed forest7.9 %

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)
10 Mar 12.9 °C 37 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
11 Mar after 15.2 °C 30 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
12 Mar after 15.0 °C 33 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
13 Mar after 12.7 °C 23 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
14 Mar after 11.5 °C 22 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
15 Mar after 11.7 °C 35 % 57 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
16 Mar after 10.2 °C 45 % 43 km/h 0.1 mm Low 7
17 Mar after 8.4 °C 64 % 28 km/h 1.6 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 3 Mar 2026
After · 17 Mar 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 11 March 2026 the air beside the fire reached 47 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 15: 1.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak47 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1051 µg/m³
Optical depth0.24
8910111213
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 Marinka fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 10 March 2026 and 10 March 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 128 hectares (1.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Marinka (128 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Marinka and came within 19.2 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 12.9 °C, humidity dropped to 37 % and gusts hit 24 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 2, class Very low.
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 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.