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Wildfires in Ukraine
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Regions
- Cherkasy1 fire
- Chernihivno fires now
- Chernivtsi2 fires
- Dnipropetrovsk9 fires
- Donetsk21 fires
- Ivano-Frankivsk1 fire
- Kharkiv4 fires
- Kherson7 fires
- Khmelnytskyi3 fires
- Kirovohrad5 fires
- Kyiv2 fires
- Luhansk6 fires
- Lviv1 fire
- Mykolaiv7 fires
- Odessa21 fires
- Poltava3 fires
- Rivne2 fires
- Sumy6 fires
- Ternopil'1 fire
- Vinnytsia11 fires
- Volynno fires now
- Zakarpattiano fires now
- Zaporizhzhia8 fires
- Zhytomyr3 fires
11 fires
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 283,040 km² of Ukraine at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 35,560 km², ranking 49th of 200 countries.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2014, with 70,530 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 17,330 km². The 2021–2025 average is 50% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
July, August and September together hold 49% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 9 March 2015, with detections in 4,624 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 283,040 km² with at least one detection, 19% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 154,640 | 55% |
| 2 years | 75,410 | 27% |
| 3 to 5 years | 50,240 | 18% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2,580 | 0.9% |
| 11 years or more | 169 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 47.25, 37.75 and holds 3.9% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 25,990 | 48,766 |
| 2013 | 23,210 | 44,014 |
| 2014 | 70,530 | 114,060 |
| 2015 | 67,340 | 112,509 |
| 2016 | 40,870 | 67,070 |
| 2017 | 50,580 | 80,272 |
| 2018 | 28,550 | 49,977 |
| 2019 | 41,130 | 68,566 |
| 2020 | 36,200 | 62,063 |
| 2021 | 17,330 | 32,511 |
| 2022 | 21,490 | 35,273 |
| 2023 | 17,980 | 29,854 |
| 2024 | 30,430 | 54,921 |
| 2025 | 26,210 | 45,380 |
Nearby countries
- Russian Federation212,570 km² in an average year
- Italy9,880 km² in an average year
- Romania7,650 km² in an average year
- Spain5,090 km² in an average year
- France3,350 km² in an average year
- Bulgaria3,180 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby countries
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
