Pavlohrad fire, 15 March 2026 Павлоградський район · Pavlohrad
The fire started on 15 March 2026 in Pavlohrad, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 112 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 159th largest in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast since 2016 (of 183 with a page). Number 870 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
- 112ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 15 Mar 2026 – 15 Mar 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 15 Mar
- 2026
- Danger at start
- 10
- Low · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.6 mm on 17 Mar.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
What happened to each town
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111 ha0.0 %
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
- Other natural land90 %
- Mixed forest8.0 %
- Agricultural areas1.8 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Mar | 12.5 °C | 34 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 16 Mar after | 10.8 °C | 47 % | 46 km/h | 0.2 mm | Low 8 |
| 17 Mar after | 7.6 °C | 70 % | 25 km/h | 1.6 mm | Very low 1 |
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 13 March 2026 the air beside the fire reached 27 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
- 1,936 haPavlohrad Павлоградський район18 July 2024 · 5 days · 10 km away
- 1,866 haPavlohrad Павлоградський районSeptember 2025 · 2 days · 12 km away
- 597 haPavlohrad Павлоградський район25 October 2021 · 4 days · 13 km away
- 551 haVasylkivka Васильківський район7 August 2025 · 8 days · 20 km away
- 777 haPetropavlivka Петропавлівський район6 September 2024 · 1 day · 22 km away
- 1,026 haPavlohrad Павлоградський район24 March 2022 · 1 day · 27 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Pavlohrad fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 15 March 2026 and 15 March 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 112 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Pavlohrad (111 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Pavlohrad and came within 21.2 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 12.5 °C, humidity dropped to 34 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 10, class Low.
- 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.
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.
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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. 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.