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Yasynuvata fire, 9 July 2025 Yasynuvata

Out · last detection 11 Jul 2025, 23:45 UTC

The fire started on 9 July 2025 in Yasynuvata, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 216 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 376th largest in Donetsk Oblast since 2016 (of 1004 with a page). Number 580 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1358.

Burnt area
216ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
9 Jul 2025 – 11 Jul 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
9 Jul
2025
Heat detections
18
in a single hotspot: 32 MW
Danger at start
69
Extreme · FWI index
Average daily power
27MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 9 Jul11 Jul
11 Jul 2025

How it evolved, day by day

9 Jul 2025 · 7 MW · 3 10 Jul 2025 · 60 MW · 9 11 Jul 2025 · 13 MW · 6
9 Jul 10 Jul 11 Jul

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

The weather it burned in

36°high
51km/h · peak gust
13%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.7 mm on 13 Jul.

This area had burned before

0% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1 ha in 2024.

What happened to each town

  1. Yasynuvata where it started
    216 ha reached on 9 Jul
    0.2 %

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

  • Agricultural areas75 %
  • Other natural land19 %
  • Mixed forest5.7 %

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)

Started with Extreme FWI: 29 % of the area in Ukraine Strong wind: 20 % of the area in Ukraine Very dry air: 3.1 % of the area in Ukraine

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
9 Jul 34.4 °C 13 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 69
10 Jul 36.3 °C 15 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
11 Jul 35.3 °C 23 % 43 km/h 0.1 mm Extreme 58
12 Jul after 36.9 °C 20 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
13 Jul after 37.5 °C 22 % 23 km/h 1.7 mm Very high 39

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 69.1, a minimum humidity of 13% and 6 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2020: 65.

FWI at the start 69.1
Minimum humidity 13 %
Days without rain 6
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Sloviansk fire, September 2024
1,336 ha 4 days FWI 68.9 Min. humidity 13 % 104 km away, in 2024

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.2 mm on 9 Sept.

What happened to them

3 days
median duration
174 ha
median area
9 %
went past 1,000 ha
5.9 mm
rain at the end (median; 36 of 65 had it)

It burned an area similar to its twins (216 ha against a median of 174 ha) and lasted 3 days, against 3 days.

In 29 of 65, 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 5.9 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

1.7 mmfirst rain
13 Jul2 days after it ended
51km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 11 Jul, and on 13 Jul 1.7 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 36 of 65, with a median of 5.9 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 · 2 Jul 2025
After · 18 Jul 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 11 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 42 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 24: 1.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak42 µg/m³
Days over the guideline3 days
PM1072 µg/m³
Optical depth0.49
8 Jul10 Jul12 Jul14 Jul
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 · 18Every 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 Yasynuvata fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 9 July 2025 to 11 July 2025 (3 days). The perimeter dates it from 10 July 2025 to 11 July 2025.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 216 hectares (2.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Yasynuvata (216 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 36.3 °C, humidity dropped to 13 % and gusts hit 51 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 69, class Extreme.
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: 65. Their median duration was 3 days and their median area 174 ha; 9 % went past 1,000 ha. In 29 of 65, 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 5.9 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

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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

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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 10 July 2025 to 11 July 2025. 18 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.