Vitovka fire, 29 July 2025 Ukraine
The fire started on 29 July 2025 in Vitovka, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 483 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 28th largest in Mykolaiv Oblast since 2016 (of 115 with a page). Number 186 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.
The power measured by the satellite is low (15.6 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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- Burnt area
- 483ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 29 Jul 2025 – 29 Jul 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 0
- districts
- Started on
- 29 Jul
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 2
- in a single hotspot: 16 MW
- Danger at start
- 35
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 19MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
29 Jul 2025 · 19 MW · 2
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 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
What burned
- Agricultural areas98 %
- Other natural land2.3 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Jul | 33.1 °C | 44 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 30 Jul after | 29.6 °C | 51 % | 44 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 34 |
| 31 Jul after | 29.3 °C | 30 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 1 Aug after | 30.0 °C | 25 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 2 Aug after | 30.7 °C | 28 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 3 Aug after | 32.0 °C | 25 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 4 Aug after | 32.1 °C | 29 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 5 Aug after | 33.0 °C | 28 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 6 Aug after | 34.7 °C | 28 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 7 Aug after | 29.8 °C | 42 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 8 Aug after | 29.5 °C | 25 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
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 29 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 22 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 · 2Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Vitovka fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 29 July 2025 and 29 July 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 483 hectares (4.8 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 33.1 °C, humidity dropped to 44 % and gusts hit 34 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 35, 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.
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.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 2 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.
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.