Orikhiv fire, 28 August 2025 Оріхівський район · Orikhiv
The fire started on 28 August 2025 in Orikhiv, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 362 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 77th largest in Zaporizhzhia Oblast since 2016 (of 490 with a page). Number 306 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.
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- Burnt area
- 362ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 4days
- 28 Aug 2025 – 31 Aug 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 28 Aug
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 5
- in a single hotspot: 39 MW
- Danger at start
- 41
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 40MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
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.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.6 mm on 8 Sept.
This area had burned before
45% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 131 ha in 2023, 97 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 163 ha that had burned before.
What happened to each town
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361 ha reached on 28 Aug0.2 %
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 areas64 %
- Other natural land32 %
- Mixed forest3.6 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Aug | 34.2 °C | 28 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 1 Sept after | 30.4 °C | 39 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 2 Sept after | 27.6 °C | 49 % | 22 km/h | 0.5 mm | High 25 |
| 3 Sept after | 29.0 °C | 28 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 4 Sept after | 26.7 °C | 34 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 5 Sept after | 24.4 °C | 35 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 6 Sept after | 25.6 °C | 33 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 7 Sept after | 26.8 °C | 34 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 8 Sept after | 28.3 °C | 36 % | 38 km/h | 1.6 mm | Moderate 20 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 31 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 17 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
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 · 5Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 1,057 haOrikhiv Оріхівський район14 August 2025 · 2 days · 9 km away
- 974 haOrikhiv Оріхівський район7 July 2025 · 8 days · 20 km away
- 985 haMykhailivka Михайлівський район15 July 2024 · 1 day · 23 km away
- 1,900 haMykhailivka Михайлівський район22 July 2024 · 5 days · 26 km away
- 1,343 haOrikhiv Оріхівський район2 July 2024 · 3 days · 27 km away
- 1,119 haTokmak Токмак1 July 2026 · 3 days · 28 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Orikhiv fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 28 August 2025 to 31 August 2025 (4 days). The perimeter dates it from 31 August 2025 to 31 August 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 362 hectares (3.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Orikhiv (361 ha, 0.2 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Orikhiv and came within 25.4 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 34.2 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 30 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 41, class Very 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 31 August 2025 to 31 August 2025. 5 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.
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.