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Volodymyrets fire, 10 February 2025 Володимирецький район · Volodymyrets

Out · last measured on 12 Feb 2025

The fire started on 10 February 2025 in Volodymyrets, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 500 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 33th largest in Rivne Oblast since 2016 (of 167 with a page). Number 171 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1358.

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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
500ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
10 Feb 2025 – 12 Feb 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
10 Feb
2025
Danger at start
1
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

-3°high
30km/h · peak gust
66%lowest humidity

It had gone 9 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.8 mm on 14 Feb.

This area had burned before

12% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 50 ha in 2021, 32 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 61 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 0.3% of the area of London (5 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Volodymyrets Володимирецький район 10.2 km from the centre where it started
    500 ha
    0.3 %

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 land55 %
  • Mixed forest26 %
  • Agricultural areas17 %
  • Broadleaved forest2.0 %

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)
10 Feb -3.4 °C 66 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
11 Feb -6.1 °C 78 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
12 Feb -3.6 °C 68 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
13 Feb after 2.0 °C 50 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 1
14 Feb after -0.1 °C 68 % 35 km/h 4.8 mm Very low 0

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 0.7, a minimum humidity of 66% and 9 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2020: 25.

FWI at the start 0.7
Minimum humidity 66 %
Days without rain 9
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Dubrovytsia fire, January 2025
109 ha 1 day FWI 0.8 Min. humidity 64 % 64 km away, in 2025

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.1 mm on 29 Jan.

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What happened to them

1 day
median duration
173 ha
median area
8 %
went past 1,000 ha
2.3 mm
rain at the end (median; 21 of 25 had it)

It was 2.9 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 3 days, against 1 day.

Only 4 of its 25 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 4 of 25, 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 2.3 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

4.8 mmfirst rain
14 Feb2 days after it ended
30km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 12 Feb, and on 14 Feb 4.8 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 21 of 25, with a median of 2.3 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 2020.
  • 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 · 3 Feb 2025
After · 19 Feb 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 14 February 2025 the air beside the fire reached 21 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 17: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak21 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1023 µg/m³
Optical depth0.47
8 Feb10 Feb12 Feb14 Feb
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 Volodymyrets fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 10 February 2025 and 12 February 2025: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 500 hectares (5.0 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Volodymyrets (500 ha, 0.3 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Volodymyrets and came within 10.2 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 -3.4 °C, humidity dropped to 66 % and gusts hit 30 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 1, class Very 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.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2020 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 25. Their median duration was 1 day and their median area 173 ha; 8 % went past 1,000 ha. Only 4 of its 25 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 4 of 25, 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 2.3 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.

No changes since 24 October 2026.

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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. 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.

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.