Skip to content
worldfires
en
UA · Ukraine · →

Orikhiv fire, 29 June 2026 Оріхівський район · Orikhiv

Out · last detection 1 Jul 2026, 10:43 UTC

The fire started on 29 June 2026 in Orikhiv, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 121 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 388th largest in Zaporizhzhia Oblast since 2016 (of 490 with a page). Number 790 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

The power measured by the satellite is low (8.3 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Compare with…

Suggestions: Orikhiv · 2024Orikhiv · 2025Orikhiv · 2024Zaporizhia · 2023

Burnt area
121ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
≈ 4days
29 Jun 2026 – 2 Jul 2026
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
29 Jun
2026
Heat detections
2
in a single hotspot: 8 MW
Average daily power
13MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 29 Jun2 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

1 Jul 2026 · 13 MW · 2

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

This area had burned before

40% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 48 ha in 2024.

What happened to each town

  1. Orikhiv Оріхівський район 44,686 inhabitants · 12.1 km from the centre where it started
    121 ha reached on 1 Jul
    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

  • Agricultural areas74 %
  • Other natural land25 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.8 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 22 Jun 2026
After · 9 Jul 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 4 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 17 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak17 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1019 µg/m³
Optical depth0.81
29301234
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 · 2Every 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

Other fires nearby

All fires in Ukraine ›

Frequently asked questions

How long did the Orikhiv fire last?
The official perimeter only gives the start date (1 July 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 2 July 2026 (4 days from 29 June 2026), the last day with detections before more than 10 days in a row without any, so it is approximate.
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 Orikhiv (121 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Orikhiv and came within 12.1 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.
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.

RSS Changes to this page

Does something look wrong on this page?

This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.

Report an error
What do you think is wrong?

We will only use your email to reply about this report. Privacy. This is not an emergency service: if there is a fire now, call 101 · 112.

How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • The official perimeter has no end date: the end is the last day with VIIRS detections inside the perimeter before a gap of more than 10 days (150 days at most), so it is approximate. 2 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.