How long did the Sloviansk fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 21 August 2025 to 22 August 2025 (2 days). The perimeter dates it from 22 August 2025 to 22 August 2025.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 220 hectares (2.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Sloviansk (221 ha, 0.1 %).

Did the fire reach a town?

The fire started in Sloviansk and came within 13.0 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 32.8 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, class Very 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.

UA · Ukraine · 2025-08-21 → 2025-08-22

Sloviansk fire, 21 August 2025 Слов'янський район · Sloviansk

Out · last detection 22 Aug 2025, 10:04 UTC

The fire started on 21 August 2025 in Sloviansk, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 220 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 370th largest in Donetsk Oblast since 2016 (of 1004 with a page). Number 570 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.

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Burnt area: 220ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 2days; 21 Aug 2025 – 22 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 21 Aug; 2025
Heat detections: 5; in a single hotspot: 34 MW
Danger at start: 45; Very high · FWI index
Average daily power: 70MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 21 Aug22 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

22 Aug 2025 · 70 MW · 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

33°high

40km/h · peak gust

19%lowest humidity

It had gone 17 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 9.3 mm on 23 Aug.

This area had burned before

48% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 14 ha in 2023, 92 ha in 2024.

What happened to each town

Sloviansk Слов'янський район 13.0 km from the centre where it started

221 ha reached on 22 Aug

0.1 %

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

Agricultural areas52 %
Other natural land41 %
Mixed forest6.3 %
Artificial surfaces0.9 %

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)
22 Aug	32.8 °C	19 %	40 km/h	0.0 mm	Very high 45
23 Aug after	28.5 °C	40 %	37 km/h	9.3 mm	Low 6

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 14 Aug 2025

After · 29 Aug 2025

Before After

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 22 August 2025 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

PM1024 µg/m³

Optical depth0.51

202122232425

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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 · 5Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Sloviansk fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 21 August 2025 to 22 August 2025 (2 days). The perimeter dates it from 22 August 2025 to 22 August 2025.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 220 hectares (2.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Sloviansk (221 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?: The fire started in Sloviansk and came within 13.0 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 32.8 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, class Very 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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How we know this

Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 22 August 2025 to 22 August 2025. 5 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

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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.

Where it burned