How long did the Nova Odesa fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 8 July 2026 and 8 July 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 268 hectares (2.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Nova Odesa (267 ha, 0.2 %).

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.

UA · Ukraine · 2026-07-08 → 2026-07-08

Nova Odesa fire, July 2026 Nova Odesa

Out · last detection 8 Jul 2026, 11:53 UTC

The fire started on 8 July 2026 in Nova Odesa, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 268 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 47th largest in Mykolaiv Oblast since 2016 (of 115 with a page). Number 322 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

Burnt area: 268ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 1day; 8 Jul 2026 – 8 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 8 Jul; 2026
Heat detections: 7; in a single hotspot: 52 MW
Energy released: 157MW; sum of detected power

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 8 Jul8 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

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

This area had burned before

84% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 198 ha in 2024, 64 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 225 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

Nova Odesa where it started

267 ha reached on 8 Jul

0.2 %

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

Other natural land90 %
Agricultural areas10 %

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)
9 Jul after	24.4 °C	32 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 6
10 Jul after	20.5 °C	54 %	19 km/h	9.1 mm	Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 1 Jul 2026

After · 15 Jul 2026

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 10 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 7 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak7 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1010 µg/m³

Optical depth0.56

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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 · 7Every 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 Nova Odesa fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 8 July 2026 and 8 July 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 268 hectares (2.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Nova Odesa (267 ha, 0.2 %).
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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Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

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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.

Where it burned