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Pavlohrad fire, 5 August 2026 Павлоградський район · Pavlohrad

Out · last detection 12 Aug 2026, 10:58 UTC

The fire started on 5 August 2026 in Pavlohrad, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 17 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 203 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 79th largest in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast since 2016 (of 183 with a page). Number 437 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

The power measured by the satellite is low (17.5 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
203ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
≈ 17days
5 Aug 2026 – 21 Aug 2026
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
5 Aug
2026
Heat detections
6
in a single hotspot: 18 MW
Danger at start
29
High · FWI index
Average daily power
81MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 5 Aug21 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

12 Aug 2026 · 81 MW · 6

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

The weather it burned in

37°high
45km/h · peak gust
18%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 26 Aug.

This area had burned before

36% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 74 ha in 2023.

What happened to each town

  1. Pavlohrad Павлоградський район 27,252 inhabitants · 10.5 km from the centre where it started
    203 ha reached on 12 Aug
    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

  • Other natural land83 %
  • Mixed forest11 %
  • Agricultural areas6.4 %

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)
5 Aug 33.7 °C 33 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
6 Aug 36.3 °C 22 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
7 Aug 36.8 °C 18 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
8 Aug 34.3 °C 30 % 33 km/h 1.0 mm High 30
9 Aug 30.4 °C 49 % 41 km/h 0.2 mm High 27
10 Aug 30.7 °C 36 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
11 Aug 33.2 °C 32 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
12 Aug 28.3 °C 28 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
13 Aug 24.6 °C 27 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
14 Aug 23.5 °C 29 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
15 Aug 26.1 °C 26 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
16 Aug 29.3 °C 23 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
17 Aug 31.0 °C 24 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
18 Aug 32.8 °C 20 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
19 Aug 21.9 °C 52 % 36 km/h 0.6 mm High 22
20 Aug 28.9 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
21 Aug 32.5 °C 24 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
22 Aug after 35.1 °C 18 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
23 Aug after 35.0 °C 19 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
24 Aug after 27.4 °C 26 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
25 Aug after 27.8 °C 25 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
26 Aug after 25.1 °C 42 % 29 km/h 1.3 mm Moderate 18

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 29 Jul 2026
After · 28 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 12 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 18 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak18 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1022 µg/m³
Optical depth0.36
101112131415
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 · 6Every 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 Pavlohrad fire last?
The official perimeter only gives the start date (12 August 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 21 August 2026 (17 days from 5 August 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 203 hectares (2.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Pavlohrad (203 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Pavlohrad and came within 10.5 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 36.8 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, 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 ›

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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. 6 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.

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.