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Nikopol fire, 1 July 2025 Нікополь · Nikopol

Out · last measured on 3 Jul 2025

The fire started on 1 July 2025 in Nikopol, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 662 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 14th largest in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast since 2016 (of 183 with a page). Number 105 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.

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
662ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
1 Jul 2025 – 3 Jul 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
1 Jul
2025
Danger at start
25
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

28°high
47km/h · peak gust
35%lowest humidity

It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

2% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 11 ha in 2024.

What happened to each town

  1. Nikopol Нікополь 105,160 inhabitants · 24.5 km from the town where it started
    661 ha reached on 8 Jul
    0.5 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Agricultural areas73 %
  • Other natural land24 %
  • Mixed forest2.7 %

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)
1 Jul 23.4 °C 40 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
2 Jul 24.9 °C 35 % 43 km/h 0.5 mm High 24
3 Jul 27.6 °C 35 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
4 Jul after 31.5 °C 29 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
5 Jul after 28.4 °C 41 % 41 km/h 0.7 mm Moderate 21
6 Jul after 30.6 °C 23 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
7 Jul after 34.3 °C 29 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
8 Jul after 36.5 °C 24 % 33 km/h 0.1 mm High 32
9 Jul after 36.3 °C 18 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
10 Jul after 37.1 °C 23 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
11 Jul after 32.6 °C 34 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
12 Jul after 34.0 °C 30 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
13 Jul after 32.5 °C 35 % 36 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 38

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 24 Jun 2025
After · 10 Jul 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 5 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 16 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak16 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1020 µg/m³
Optical depth0.46
2930123456
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)

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Nikopol fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 1 July 2025 and 3 July 2025: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 662 hectares (6.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Nikopol (661 ha, 0.5 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 24.5 km of Nikopol. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 27.6 °C, humidity dropped to 35 % and gusts hit 47 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 25, 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.

Emergency number: 101 · 112

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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.