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Studenichani fire, August 2025 Општина Студеничани · Studenichani

Out · last measured on 24 Aug 2025

The fire started on 24 August 2025 in Studenichani, North Macedonia, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 103 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 30th largest in Skopje since 2016 (of 31 with a page). Number 35 in North Macedonia in 2025, of 37.

Burnt area
103ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
24 Aug 2025 – 24 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
24 Aug
2025
Heat detections
2
in a single hotspot: 27 MW
Danger at start
26
High · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 24 Aug24 Aug

The weather it burned in

28°high
31km/h · peak gust
28%lowest humidity

It had gone 5 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.8 mm on 31 Aug.

This area had burned before

60% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 62 ha in 2019, 1 ha in 2023.

What happened to each town

  1. Studenichani Општина Студеничани 21,970 inhabitants · 7.6 km from the town where it started
    103 ha reached on 21 Aug
    0.4 %

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

  • Agricultural areas90 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland10 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

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)
24 Aug 27.6 °C 28 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
25 Aug after 28.0 °C 28 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
26 Aug after 29.1 °C 26 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
27 Aug after 32.2 °C 11 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
28 Aug after 33.4 °C 16 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
29 Aug after 34.4 °C 23 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
30 Aug after 33.8 °C 26 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
31 Aug after 28.5 °C 31 % 24 km/h 7.8 mm Very low 4

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 17 Aug 2025
After · 31 Aug 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 27 August 2025 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 depth0.34
222324252627
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 · 2Every 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 Studenichani fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 24 August 2025 and 24 August 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 103 hectares (1.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Studenichani (103 ha, 0.4 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 7.6 km of Studenichani. 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 27.6 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 31 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 North Macedonia (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: 193 · 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 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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.