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Tokmak fire, 12 August 2026 Токмак · Tokmak

Out · last measured on 18 Aug 2026

The fire started on 12 August 2026 in Tokmak, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 142 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 315th largest in Zaporizhzhia Oblast since 2016 (of 490 with a page). Number 673 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

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We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
142ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
7days
12 Aug 2026 – 18 Aug 2026
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
12 Aug
2026
Danger at start
24
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

33°high
44km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 14 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.5 mm on 28 Aug.

This area had burned before

18% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 25 ha in 2023.

What happened to each town

  1. Tokmak Токмак 29,573 inhabitants · 5.2 km from the centre where it started
    142 ha
    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

  • Other natural land81 %
  • Agricultural areas18 %
  • Mixed forest0.7 %

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)
12 Aug 30.5 °C 31 % 41 km/h 1.7 mm High 24
13 Aug 25.0 °C 27 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
14 Aug 25.2 °C 25 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
15 Aug 25.9 °C 27 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
16 Aug 28.6 °C 26 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
17 Aug 30.6 °C 22 % 16 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
18 Aug 32.8 °C 21 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
19 Aug after 26.3 °C 49 % 34 km/h 0.1 mm High 26
20 Aug after 29.7 °C 30 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
21 Aug after 31.7 °C 28 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
22 Aug after 35.0 °C 17 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
23 Aug after 35.1 °C 20 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
24 Aug after 28.4 °C 26 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
25 Aug after 29.0 °C 22 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
26 Aug after 28.8 °C 29 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
27 Aug after 25.2 °C 41 % 34 km/h 0.7 mm High 26
28 Aug after 25.6 °C 40 % 46 km/h 1.5 mm High 22

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 5 Aug 2026
After · 25 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 12 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 20 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak20 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1026 µg/m³
Optical depth0.41
101112131415
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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Tokmak fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 12 August 2026 to 18 August 2026 (7 days). The perimeter dates it from 12 August 2026 to 12 August 2026.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 142 hectares (1.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Tokmak (142 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Tokmak and came within 5.2 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 21 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 39, 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 12 August 2026 to 12 August 2026. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • 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.