Stryi fire, May 2025 Стрийський район · Stryi
The fire started on 1 May 2025 in Stryi, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 267 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 25th largest in Lviv Oblast since 2016 (of 105 with a page). Number 454 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.
The power measured by the satellite is low (4.9 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
- 267ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 2days
- 1 May 2025 – 2 May 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 1 May
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 4
- in a single hotspot: 5 MW
- Danger at start
- 8
- Low · FWI index
- Energy released
- 10MW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 11.1 mm on 4 May.
This area had burned before
87% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 232 ha in 2021.
What happened to each town
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266 ha reached on 1 May0.2 %
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
- Mixed forest72 %
- Other natural land18 %
- Broadleaved forest9.3 %
- Agricultural areas0.8 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 May | 19.0 °C | 45 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 2 May | 21.8 °C | 38 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 3 May after | 24.3 °C | 46 % | 52 km/h | 0.3 mm | Low 11 |
| 4 May after | 23.0 °C | 53 % | 55 km/h | 11.1 mm | Very low 1 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 30 April 2025 the air beside the fire reached 15 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
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 · 4Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 308 haStryi Стрийський районMay 2021 · 2 days · 0 km away
- 383 haStryi Стрийський районApril 2026 · 1 day · 3 km away
- 279 haStryi Стрийський район18 March 2022 · 4 days · 7 km away
- 375 haDolyna Долинський районApril 2020 · 4 days · 15 km away
- 366 haZhydachiv Жидачівський район13 March 2022 · 2 days · 22 km away
- 256 haRozhniativ Рожнятівський район13 March 2026 · 1 day · 26 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Stryi fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 1 May 2025 and 2 May 2025: 2 days between the first and last image with fire.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 267 hectares (2.7 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Stryi (266 ha, 0.2 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 15.9 km of Stryi. 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 21.8 °C, humidity dropped to 38 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 8, class Low.
- 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.