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Nikopol fire, September 2026 Нікополь · Ukraine

Out · last detection 29 Sept 2026, 10:21 UTC

Satellites first detected fire on 29 September 2026 in Nikopol, Ukraine. It has been active for 1 day, with 0 heat detections and an area with fire of about 378 hectares rebuilt from them, spread across a single municipality.

Copernicus has not yet published the burnt perimeter, which takes a few days to measure on satellite imagery. For now the area is the one rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per pixel). When the perimeter arrives, this page picks it up on its own and keeps the same address.

Area with fire
≈ 378ha
rebuilt from hotspots, no official perimeter yet
Duration
1day
29 Sept 2026 – 29 Sept 2026
Municipalities hit
0
districts
Started on
29 Sept
2026
Heat detections
0
in a single hotspot: 0 MW
Danger at start
18
Moderate · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Sept29 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

29

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

The weather it burned in

21°high
51km/h · peak gust
34%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

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)
29 Sept 21.2 °C 34 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
30 Sept after 19.0 °C 51 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 22 Sept 2026
After · 6 Oct 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 27 September 2026 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
PM1020 µg/m³
Optical depth0.51
272829
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 · 0Every 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 timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Nikopol fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 29 September 2026 to 29 September 2026 (1 day between the first and the last detection). There is no perimeter yet to date it.
How much area did it burn?
There is no official perimeter yet. Heat detections rebuild about 378 hectares with fire (3.8 km²); Copernicus will publish the measured figure within days.
Is the Nikopol fire still active?
No fire detections since 29 Sept 2026, 10:21 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 21.2 °C, humidity dropped to 34 % and gusts hit 51 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 18, class Moderate.
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.