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Nova Vodolaha fire, April 2025 Нововодолазький район · Nova Vodolaha

Out · last detection 20 Apr 2025, 00:40 UTC

The fire started on 19 April 2025 in Nova Vodolaha, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 121 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 423th largest in Kharkiv Oblast since 2016 (of 558 with a page). Number 1109 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.

The power measured by the satellite is low (0.4 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
121ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
2days
19 Apr 2025 – 20 Apr 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
19 Apr
2025
Heat detections
1
in a single hotspot: 0 MW
Danger at start
17
Moderate · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 19 Apr20 Apr

How it evolved, day by day

20 Apr 2025 · 0 MW · 1

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

The weather it burned in

25°high
43km/h · peak gust
17%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

26% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 31 ha in 2024.

What happened to each town

  1. Nova Vodolaha Нововодолазький район 31,596 inhabitants · 19.8 km from the centre where it started
    120 ha reached on 20 Apr
    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

  • Mixed forest83 %
  • Agricultural areas8.7 %
  • Other natural land8.7 %

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)
19 Apr 24.2 °C 17 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
20 Apr 24.6 °C 19 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
21 Apr after 23.7 °C 21 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
22 Apr after 25.2 °C 21 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
23 Apr after 26.9 °C 19 % 34 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 20
24 Apr after 26.5 °C 18 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
25 Apr after 27.0 °C 19 % 29 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 21
26 Apr after 16.7 °C 54 % 54 km/h 0.8 mm Moderate 14
27 Apr after 9.3 °C 34 % 53 km/h 0.9 mm Low 11
28 Apr after 12.9 °C 19 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
29 Apr after 20.2 °C 19 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
30 Apr after 21.1 °C 24 % 40 km/h 0.1 mm High 25

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 12 Apr 2025
After · 27 Apr 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 18 April 2025 the air beside the fire reached 18 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak18 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1053 µg/m³
Optical depth0.30
17181920212223
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 · 1Every 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 Nova Vodolaha fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 19 April 2025 and 20 April 2025: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 121 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Nova Vodolaha (120 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Nova Vodolaha and came within 19.8 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 24.6 °C, humidity dropped to 17 % and gusts hit 43 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 19, 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.

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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. One Suomi-NPP VIIRS detection 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.

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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.