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Putyvl fire, 21 April 2025 Путивльський район · Putyvl

Out · last measured on 21 Apr 2025

The fire started on 21 April 2025 in Putyvl, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 192 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 61th largest in Sumy Oblast since 2016 (of 129 with a page). Number 660 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.

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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
192ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
21 Apr 2025 – 21 Apr 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
21 Apr
2025
Danger at start
17
Moderate · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

25°high
35km/h · peak gust
24%lowest humidity

It had gone 9 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.9 mm on 26 Apr.

This area had burned before

8% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 15 ha in 2024.

What happened to each town

  1. Putyvl Путивльський район 19.2 km from the centre where it started
    191 ha
    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

  • Mixed forest73 %
  • Other natural land13 %
  • Agricultural areas8.7 %
  • Broadleaved forest5.1 %

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)
21 Apr 24.7 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
22 Apr after 26.0 °C 21 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
23 Apr after 27.0 °C 18 % 15 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
24 Apr after 26.9 °C 21 % 18 km/h 0.4 mm Moderate 18
25 Apr after 24.0 °C 37 % 28 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 18
26 Apr after 14.7 °C 41 % 43 km/h 4.9 mm Very low 2

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 14 Apr 2025
After · 28 Apr 2025

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 19 April 2025 the air beside the fire reached 14 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak14 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1023 µg/m³
Optical depth0.36
192021222324
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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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Putyvl fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 21 April 2025 and 21 April 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 192 hectares (1.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Putyvl (191 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Putyvl and came within 19.2 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 24.7 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 17, class Moderate.
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.

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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.

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.