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Simferopol fire, August 2026 Сімферопольський район · Simferopol, Bakhchysarai

Out · last measured on 8 Aug 2026

The fire started on 8 August 2026 in Simferopol, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 171 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 63th largest in Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 2016 (of 100 with a page). Number 536 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

Burnt area
171ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
8 Aug 2026 – 8 Aug 2026
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
8 Aug
2026
Heat detections
1
in a single hotspot: 4 MW
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 8 Aug8 Aug

The weather it burned in

35°high
42km/h · peak gust
32%lowest humidity

It had gone 12 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.2 mm on 10 Aug.

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 · 26.8 km from the town where it started
    119 ha
    0.1 %
  2. Bakhchysarai Бахчисарайський район 94,462 inhabitants · 16.3 km from the town
    52 ha reached on 10 Aug
    0.0 %

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 %
  • Mixed forest17 %
  • Agricultural areas0.6 %

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)
8 Aug 34.7 °C 32 % 42 km/h 0.2 mm High 30
9 Aug after 34.2 °C 33 % 38 km/h 0.1 mm High 29
10 Aug after 32.2 °C 45 % 26 km/h 2.2 mm Low 9

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 1 Aug 2026
After · 15 Aug 2026

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 8 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 14 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak14 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1020 µg/m³
Optical depth0.48
67891011
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 8 August 2026 and 8 August 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 171 hectares (1.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Simferopol (119 ha, 0.1 %); Bakhchysarai (52 ha, 0.0 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 16.3 km of Bakhchysarai. 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 34.7 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, 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.