Wildfire near Velykobilozerska rural hromada
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Fire (SWIR)
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Spanning 180 hectares (445 acres), an active wildfire near Velykobilozerska rural hromada, Ukraine, continues to burn following its start on July 22, 2026. Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from the active front, underscoring the severity of the blaze.
Monitoring systems have registered 7 heat detections in the surrounding area over the past 48 hours, illustrating the extent to which the fire has spread across the region.
In context
This wildfire burned in Ukraine for 2 days. In total it burned about 180 ha (445 acres) — around 1.8 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
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