How long did the Vyshhorod fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 12 September 2025 to 15 September 2025 (4 days). The perimeter dates it from 12 September 2025 to 14 September 2025.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 639 hectares (6.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Vyshhorod (637 ha, 0.3 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 24.3 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 24, 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.

UA · Ukraine · 2025-09-12 → 2025-09-15

Vyshhorod fire, 12 September 2025 Vyshhorod

Out · last detection 15 Sept 2025, 10:55 UTC

The fire started on 12 September 2025 in Vyshhorod, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 639 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 33th largest in Kyiv Oblast since 2016 (of 128 with a page). Number 113 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.

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Burnt area: 639ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: 4days; 12 Sept 2025 – 15 Sept 2025
Municipalities hit: 1; districts
Started on: 12 Sept; 2025
Heat detections: 15; in a single hotspot: 61 MW
Danger at start: 18; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 38MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 12 Sept15 Sept

Play back 15 Sept 2025

How it evolved, day by day

12 Sept 13 Sept 14 Sept 15 Sept

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

24°high

45km/h · peak gust

30%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 12.0 mm on 17 Sept.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 0.4% of the area of London (6.4 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

Vyshhorod where it started

637 ha reached on 12 Sept

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 land57 %
Agricultural areas29 %
Mixed forest14 %

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 Sept	24.2 °C	30 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
13 Sept	24.3 °C	39 %	32 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 19
14 Sept	22.6 °C	32 %	44 km/h	0.0 mm	High 23
15 Sept	23.2 °C	35 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
16 Sept after	25.3 °C	29 %	31 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
17 Sept after	17.0 °C	54 %	24 km/h	12.0 mm	Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 5 Sept 2025

After · 22 Sept 2025

Before After

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 16 September 2025 the air beside the fire reached 10 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak10 µg/m³

Days over the guideline0 days

PM1012 µg/m³

Optical depth0.43

1011121314151617

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 · 15Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Vyshhorod fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 12 September 2025 to 15 September 2025 (4 days). The perimeter dates it from 12 September 2025 to 14 September 2025.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 639 hectares (6.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Vyshhorod (637 ha, 0.3 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 24.3 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 24, 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.

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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 September 2025 to 14 September 2025. 15 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.

Where it burned