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Shakhtarsk fire, 30 June 2025 Шахтарський район · Shakhtarsk

Out · last measured on 2 Jul 2025

The fire started on 30 June 2025 in Shakhtarsk, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 538 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 98th largest in Donetsk Oblast since 2016 (of 1004 with a page). Number 156 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
538ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
30 Jun 2025 – 2 Jul 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
30 Jun
2025
Danger at start
12
Moderate · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

25°high
50km/h · peak gust
34%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

42% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 107 ha in 2023, 120 ha in 2024.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 0.3% of the area of London (5.4 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Shakhtarsk Шахтарський район 18,952 inhabitants · 18.3 km from the centre where it started
    538 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

  • Other natural land54 %
  • Agricultural areas30 %
  • Mixed forest14 %
  • Artificial surfaces1.5 %

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)
30 Jun 25.0 °C 34 % 49 km/h 0.1 mm Moderate 12
1 Jul 20.8 °C 45 % 50 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 12
2 Jul 23.4 °C 45 % 50 km/h 5.4 mm Very low 2
3 Jul after 23.0 °C 43 % 36 km/h 0.2 mm Very low 5
4 Jul after 29.0 °C 32 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
5 Jul after 31.5 °C 28 % 38 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 19
6 Jul after 29.7 °C 27 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
7 Jul after 33.2 °C 24 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
8 Jul after 36.4 °C 18 % 30 km/h 0.2 mm High 28
9 Jul after 34.8 °C 12 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
10 Jul after 36.8 °C 14 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
11 Jul after 35.8 °C 20 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
12 Jul after 37.2 °C 18 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 33

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 23 Jun 2025
After · 9 Jul 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 4 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 66 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 31: 2.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak66 µg/m³
Days over the guideline3 days
PM1079 µg/m³
Optical depth0.72
28293012345
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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Shakhtarsk fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 30 June 2025 and 2 July 2025: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 538 hectares (5.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Shakhtarsk (538 ha, 0.2 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Shakhtarsk and came within 18.3 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 25.0 °C, humidity dropped to 34 % and gusts hit 50 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 · 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.
  • 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.