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Orikhiv fire, 13 July 2026 Оріхівський район · Orikhiv

Out · last detection 16 Aug 2026, 09:41 UTC

The fire started on 13 July 2026 in Orikhiv, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 43 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 249 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 147th largest in Zaporizhzhia Oblast since 2016 (of 490 with a page). Number 357 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

The power measured by the satellite is low (2.9 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
249ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
≈ 43days
13 Jul 2026 – 24 Aug 2026
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
13 Jul
2026
Heat detections
2
in a single hotspot: 3 MW
Danger at start
18
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
6MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Jul24 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

16 Aug 2026 · 6 MW · 2

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

The weather it burned in

36°high
49km/h · peak gust
16%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.8 mm on 28 Aug.

This area had burned before

38% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 84 ha in 2024, 27 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 94 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Orikhiv Оріхівський район 44,686 inhabitants · 22.3 km from the centre where it started
    249 ha reached on 16 Aug
    0.2 %

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 areas92 %
  • Other natural land7.7 %

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

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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)
13 Jul 27.4 °C 38 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
14 Jul 27.9 °C 43 % 30 km/h 0.8 mm Moderate 15
15 Jul 29.0 °C 53 % 30 km/h 1.1 mm Low 11
16 Jul 29.6 °C 37 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
17 Jul 26.7 °C 34 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
18 Jul 24.0 °C 35 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
19 Jul 30.0 °C 28 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
20 Jul 31.1 °C 31 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
21 Jul 31.4 °C 34 % 31 km/h 0.1 mm High 28
22 Jul 29.5 °C 28 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
23 Jul 23.9 °C 47 % 36 km/h 1.5 mm Moderate 12
24 Jul 26.3 °C 42 % 35 km/h 0.5 mm Moderate 20
25 Jul 25.2 °C 52 % 40 km/h 3.4 mm Low 7
26 Jul 27.4 °C 37 % 44 km/h 5.1 mm Low 6
27 Jul 30.4 °C 29 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
28 Jul 28.4 °C 32 % 46 km/h 2.9 mm Low 11
29 Jul 24.5 °C 32 % 46 km/h 0.2 mm High 22
30 Jul 27.0 °C 30 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
31 Jul 29.2 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
1 Aug 31.0 °C 27 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
2 Aug 33.1 °C 25 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
3 Aug 33.6 °C 26 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
4 Aug 34.4 °C 25 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
5 Aug 35.1 °C 24 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
6 Aug 36.3 °C 18 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
7 Aug 36.5 °C 21 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
8 Aug 35.4 °C 26 % 37 km/h 0.7 mm High 36
9 Aug 31.9 °C 43 % 42 km/h 0.6 mm High 31
10 Aug 31.9 °C 37 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
11 Aug 34.6 °C 32 % 23 km/h 0.2 mm High 28
12 Aug 30.4 °C 29 % 40 km/h 1.2 mm High 30
13 Aug 25.1 °C 26 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
14 Aug 25.0 °C 26 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
15 Aug 25.8 °C 27 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
16 Aug 28.5 °C 26 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
17 Aug 30.7 °C 21 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
18 Aug 33.0 °C 20 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
19 Aug 26.2 °C 48 % 32 km/h 0.6 mm High 26
20 Aug 29.0 °C 30 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
21 Aug 32.0 °C 26 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
22 Aug 35.3 °C 16 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
23 Aug 35.2 °C 20 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
24 Aug 28.5 °C 25 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
25 Aug after 28.7 °C 23 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
26 Aug after 28.4 °C 30 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
27 Aug after 24.4 °C 43 % 30 km/h 0.6 mm High 30
28 Aug after 25.6 °C 40 % 49 km/h 1.8 mm Moderate 21

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Jul 2026
After · 31 Aug 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 15 July 2026 the air beside the fire reached 25 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak25 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1030 µg/m³
Optical depth0.41
111213141516
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

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Orikhiv fire last?
The official perimeter only gives the start date (13 July 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 24 August 2026 (43 days from 13 July 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 249 hectares (2.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Orikhiv (249 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Orikhiv and came within 22.3 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 36.5 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 54, class Extreme.
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 ›

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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

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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.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
  • Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

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.