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Snihurivka fire, October 2026 Ukraine

Out · last detection 1 Oct 2026, 11:23 UTC

Satellites first detected fire on 1 October 2026 in Snihurivka, Ukraine. It was active for 1 day, with an area with fire of about 154 hectares estimated from satellite heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

Copernicus has not yet published the burnt perimeter, which takes a few days to measure on satellite imagery. For now the area is the one rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per pixel). When the perimeter arrives, this page picks it up on its own and keeps the same address.

Area with fire
≈ 154ha
rebuilt from hotspots, no official perimeter yet
Duration
1day
1 Oct 2026 – 1 Oct 2026
Municipalities hit
0
districts
Started on
1 Oct
2026
Heat detections
0
in a single hotspot: 0 MW
Danger at start
26
High · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Oct1 Oct

How it evolved, day by day

1 Oct 2026 · 0 MW · 0

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

The weather it burned in

20°high
48km/h · peak gust
41%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

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)
1 Oct 20.2 °C 41 % 48 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
2 Oct after 18.4 °C 32 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
3 Oct after 20.0 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
4 Oct after 21.3 °C 39 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
5 Oct after 22.3 °C 33 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
6 Oct after 22.0 °C 38 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
7 Oct after 23.6 °C 36 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
8 Oct after 21.7 °C 48 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
9 Oct after 22.4 °C 52 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
10 Oct after 22.9 °C 59 % 22 km/h 0.4 mm Moderate 12
11 Oct after 25.1 °C 40 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 24

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 25.8, a minimum humidity of 41% and 2 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2022: 18.

FWI at the start 25.8
Minimum humidity 41 %
Days without rain 2
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Beryslav fire, June 2026
102 ha 18 days FWI 25.9 Min. humidity 40 % 28 km away, in 2026

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 10.7 mm on 4 Jul.

What happened to them

4 days
median duration
168 ha
median area
0 %
went past 1,000 ha
2.1 mm
rain at the end (median; 12 of 18 had it)

It burned an area similar to its twins (154 ha against a median of 168 ha) and lasted 1 day, against 4 days.

In 6 of 18, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.1 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

—first rain
—no rain in ten days
48km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 1 Oct, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 12 of 18, with a median of 2.1 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2022.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 24 Sept 2026
After · 8 Oct 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 30 September 2026 the air beside the fire reached 12 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak12 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1015 µg/m³
Optical depth0.20
29301
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 · 0Every 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 Snihurivka fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 1 October 2026 to 1 October 2026 (1 day between the first and the last detection). There is no perimeter yet to date it.
How much area did it burn?
There is no official perimeter yet. Heat detections rebuild about 154 hectares with fire (1.5 km²); Copernicus will publish the measured figure within days.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 20.2 °C, humidity dropped to 41 % and gusts hit 48 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 26, 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.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2022 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 18. Their median duration was 4 days and their median area 168 ha; 0 % went past 1,000 ha. In 6 of 18, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 2.1 mm.

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

Satellite cross-check

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
  • No perimeter yet: the area (≈ 154 ha) is estimated by counting VIIRS pixels with fire, about 14 ha each.
  • Dates of the first and last VIIRS detection of the cluster. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • 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.