How long did the Putyvl fire last?

Copernicus dates it between 19 June 2026 and 19 June 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 103 hectares (1.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Putyvl (103 ha, 0.1 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 21.5 km of Putyvl. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 26.5 °C, humidity dropped to 38 % and gusts hit 25 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 12, 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.

UA · Ukraine · 2026-06-19 → 2026-06-19

Putyvl fire, June 2026 Путивльський район · Putyvl

Out · last measured on 19 Jun 2026

The fire started on 19 June 2026 in Putyvl, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 103 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 118th largest in Sumy Oblast since 2016 (of 129 with a page). Number 945 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

Burnt area: 103ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 1day; 19 Jun 2026 – 19 Jun 2026
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 19 Jun; 2026
Heat detections: 3; in a single hotspot: 11 MW
Danger at start: 3; Very low · FWI index

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 19 Jun19 Jun

The weather it burned in

26°high

25km/h · peak gust

38%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 12.4 mm on 28 Jul.

This area had burned before

50% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 52 ha in 2025.

52 ha Putyvl fire, September 2025 153 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

What happened to each town

Putyvl Путивльський район 21.5 km from the town where it started

103 ha reached on 27 Jul

0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

Agricultural areas89 %
Other natural land7.9 %
Mixed forest3.0 %

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)
9 Jul after	19.5 °C	56 %	14 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 3
10 Jul after	15.8 °C	82 %	14 km/h	11.6 mm	Very low 0
11 Jul after	20.0 °C	65 %	15 km/h	8.2 mm	Very low 0
12 Jul after	20.1 °C	60 %	21 km/h	4.9 mm	Very low 0
13 Jul after	23.1 °C	71 %	25 km/h	4.6 mm	Very low 0
14 Jul after	23.5 °C	64 %	20 km/h	1.5 mm	Very low 0
15 Jul after	25.4 °C	57 %	20 km/h	2.9 mm	Very low 0
16 Jul after	24.1 °C	51 %	21 km/h	0.2 mm	Very low 2
17 Jul after	19.6 °C	43 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 5
18 Jul after	23.1 °C	44 %	9 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 4
19 Jul after	24.5 °C	45 %	9 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 5
20 Jul after	24.6 °C	60 %	19 km/h	2.4 mm	Very low 1
21 Jul after	23.5 °C	49 %	16 km/h	0.2 mm	Very low 4
22 Jul after	20.8 °C	57 %	24 km/h	0.7 mm	Low 6
23 Jul after	19.0 °C	59 %	10 km/h	0.2 mm	Very low 4
24 Jul after	21.1 °C	53 %	17 km/h	0.3 mm	Low 6
25 Jul after	23.6 °C	46 %	13 km/h	1.0 mm	Very low 5
26 Jul after	24.2 °C	44 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 11
27 Jul after	26.5 °C	38 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 12
28 Jul after	21.8 °C	57 %	46 km/h	12.4 mm	Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 12 Jun 2026

After · 26 Jun 2026

Before After

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 21 June 2026 the air beside the fire reached 6 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak6 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM107 µg/m³

Optical depth0.60

171819202122

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 · 3Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Putyvl fire last?: Copernicus dates it between 19 June 2026 and 19 June 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 103 hectares (1.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Putyvl (103 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 21.5 km of Putyvl. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 26.5 °C, humidity dropped to 38 % and gusts hit 25 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 12, 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.

Emergency number: 101 · 112

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EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

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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.

Where it burned