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Simferopol fire, September 2025 Сімферопольський район · Simferopol

Out · last detection 5 Sept 2025, 10:41 UTC

The fire started on 5 September 2025 in Simferopol, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 234 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 43th largest in Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 2016 (of 100 with a page). Number 532 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.

The power measured by the satellite is low (6.0 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
234ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
5 Sept 2025 – 7 Sept 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
5 Sept
2025
Heat detections
1
in a single hotspot: 6 MW
Danger at start
29
High · FWI index
Energy released
6MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 5 Sept7 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

5

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

28°high
47km/h · peak gust
39%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.0 mm on 9 Sept.

This area had burned before

7% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 16 ha in 2024.

What happened to each town

  1. Simferopol Сімферопольський район 168,161 inhabitants · 17.3 km from the town where it started
    234 ha reached on 5 Sept
    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 land92 %
  • Agricultural areas7.7 %

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)
5 Sept 28.1 °C 39 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
6 Sept 25.0 °C 45 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
7 Sept 25.7 °C 40 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
8 Sept after 28.0 °C 37 % 46 km/h 0.3 mm High 32
9 Sept after 24.6 °C 54 % 41 km/h 2.0 mm Low 11

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 29 Aug 2025
After · 14 Sept 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 September 2025 the air beside the fire reached 20 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak20 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1025 µg/m³
Optical depth0.33
345678910
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 · 1Every 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 timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Simferopol fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 5 September 2025 and 7 September 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 234 hectares (2.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Simferopol (234 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 17.3 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 28.1 °C, humidity dropped to 39 % and gusts hit 47 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 33, 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.

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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.