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Simferopol fire, 24 August 2025 Сімферопольський район · Simferopol

Out · last measured on 24 Aug 2025

The fire started on 24 August 2025 in Simferopol, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 249 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 37th largest in Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 2016 (of 100 with a page). Number 497 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.

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
249ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
24 Aug 2025 – 24 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
24 Aug
2025
Danger at start
28
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

26°high
32km/h · peak gust
38%lowest humidity

It had gone 38 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.3 mm on 2 Sept.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Simferopol Сімферопольський район 168,161 inhabitants · 21.4 km from the town where it started
    250 ha
    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

  • Other natural land83 %
  • Agricultural areas17 %

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)
24 Aug 26.5 °C 38 % 32 km/h 0.3 mm High 28
25 Aug after 24.0 °C 31 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
26 Aug after 25.2 °C 29 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
27 Aug after 27.8 °C 29 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
28 Aug after 29.5 °C 25 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
29 Aug after 30.9 °C 33 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
30 Aug after 32.4 °C 34 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
31 Aug after 30.9 °C 41 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
1 Sept after 28.6 °C 51 % 35 km/h 0.8 mm High 22
2 Sept after 26.2 °C 46 % 25 km/h 2.3 mm Low 8

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 17 Aug 2025
After · 31 Aug 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 23 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 7 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak7 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1010 µg/m³
Optical depth0.27
222324252627
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)

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Simferopol fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 24 August 2025 and 24 August 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 249 hectares (2.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Simferopol (250 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 21.4 km of Simferopol. 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 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, class 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

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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.