Resen fire, July 2025 Општина Ресен · Resen
The fire started on 11 July 2025 in Resen, North Macedonia, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 589 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 21th largest in Pelagonia since 2016 (of 76 with a page). Number 13 in North Macedonia in 2025, of 37.
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- Burnt area
- 589ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 11days
- 11 Jul 2025 – 21 Jul 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 11 Jul
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 12
- in a single hotspot: 32 MW
- Danger at start
- 24
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 17MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 16 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.4 mm on 18 Jul.
This area had burned before
44% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 62 ha in 2018, 228 ha in 2019, 42 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 261 ha that had burned before.
- 127 ha Resen fire, March 2019 148 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 98 ha Resen fire, March 2019 107 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 42 ha Resen fire, March 2021 104 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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195 ha reached on 11 Jul0.4 %
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 land40 %
- Other land cover34 %
- Agricultural areas25 %
Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Jul | 31.1 °C | 34 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 15 Jul | 29.2 °C | 42 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 16 Jul | 29.9 °C | 39 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 17 Jul | 30.3 °C | 38 % | 43 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 29 |
| 18 Jul | 27.9 °C | 48 % | 28 km/h | 1.4 mm | Moderate 12 |
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 14 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 20 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)
Detections table · 12Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 1,598 haOhrid Општина Охрид6 August 2024 · 12 days · 15 km away
- 311 haOhrid Општина ОхридAugust 2021 · 6 days · 17 km away
- 2,869 haKuçovëAugust 2024 · 5 days · 18 km away
- 1,111 haDebartsa Општина ДебарцаJuly 2024 · 10 days · 27 km away
- 568 haBitola Општина БитолаSeptember 2019 · 3 days · 34 km away
- 961 haMogila Општина Могила13 August 2026 · 1 day · 40 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Resen fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 11 July 2025 to 21 July 2025 (11 days). The perimeter dates it from 14 July 2025 to 16 July 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 589 hectares (5.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Resen (195 ha, 0.4 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Resen and came within 7.2 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 31.1 °C, humidity dropped to 34 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 25, class High.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of North Macedonia (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: 193 · 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.
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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 adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 14 July 2025 to 16 July 2025. 12 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 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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.