Orikhiv fire, 25 June 2026 Оріхівський район · Orikhiv
The fire started on 25 June 2026 in Orikhiv, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 24 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 123 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 377th largest in Zaporizhzhia Oblast since 2016 (of 490 with a page). Number 772 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.
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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
- 123ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 24days
- 25 Jun 2026 – 18 Jul 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 25 Jun
- 2026
- Danger at start
- 8
- Low · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
78% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 6 ha in 2022, 25 ha in 2023, 92 ha in 2024, 2 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 96 ha that had burned before.
What happened to each town
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123 ha reached on 25 Jun0.1 %
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
- Agricultural areas71 %
- Other natural land26 %
- Mixed forest3.2 %
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 | 27.9 °C | 32 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 10 Jul | 22.2 °C | 57 % | 24 km/h | 4.9 mm | Very low 1 |
| 11 Jul | 24.2 °C | 41 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 12 Jul | 24.1 °C | 43 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 13 Jul | 26.6 °C | 35 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 14 Jul | 27.5 °C | 38 % | 20 km/h | 2.5 mm | Very low 4 |
| 15 Jul | 29.0 °C | 40 % | 27 km/h | 0.2 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 16 Jul | 27.8 °C | 36 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 17 Jul | 26.5 °C | 29 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 18 Jul | 25.0 °C | 32 % | 13 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 19 Jul after | 29.0 °C | 28 % | 10 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 20 Jul after | 30.5 °C | 27 % | 15 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 21 Jul after | 32.8 °C | 27 % | 25 km/h | 1.1 mm | High 22 |
| 22 Jul after | 28.9 °C | 28 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 23 Jul after | 27.1 °C | 32 % | 18 km/h | 9.8 mm | Very low 3 |
| 24 Jul after | 23.5 °C | 57 % | 23 km/h | 3.0 mm | Very low 3 |
| 25 Jul after | 25.0 °C | 51 % | 23 km/h | 7.0 mm | Very low 2 |
| 26 Jul after | 27.0 °C | 38 % | 26 km/h | 0.1 mm | Low 9 |
| 27 Jul after | 30.1 °C | 25 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 28 Jul after | 29.0 °C | 34 % | 41 km/h | 5.9 mm | Very low 4 |
| 29 Jul after | 24.5 °C | 33 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 30 Jul after | 26.2 °C | 32 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 31 Jul after | 28.4 °C | 34 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 1 Aug after | 29.6 °C | 35 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 2 Aug after | 31.9 °C | 32 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 3 Aug after | 33.0 °C | 31 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 4 Aug after | 32.7 °C | 31 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 5 Aug after | 33.9 °C | 27 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 6 Aug after | 35.8 °C | 23 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 7 Aug after | 35.6 °C | 22 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 8 Aug after | 36.0 °C | 24 % | 27 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 28 |
| 9 Aug after | 31.4 °C | 49 % | 36 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 23 |
| 10 Aug after | 30.9 °C | 46 % | 32 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 22 |
| 11 Aug after | 33.5 °C | 33 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 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 23 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 13 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)
Other fires nearby
- 974 haOrikhiv Оріхівський район7 July 2025 · 8 days · 9 km away
- 1,343 haOrikhiv Оріхівський район2 July 2024 · 3 days · 17 km away
- 1,115 haZaporizhia Запорізький районSeptember 2023 · 5 days · 20 km away
- 1,057 haOrikhiv Оріхівський район14 August 2025 · 2 days · 20 km away
- 985 haMykhailivka Михайлівський район15 July 2024 · 1 day · 23 km away
- 1,900 haMykhailivka Михайлівський район22 July 2024 · 5 days · 27 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 25 June 2026 to 18 July 2026 (24 days). The perimeter dates it from 25 June 2026 to 25 June 2026.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 123 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Orikhiv (123 ha, 0.1 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Orikhiv and came within 13.6 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 32.8 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 22, 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 · 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 25 June 2026 to 25 June 2026. No 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.