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Wildfires in Croatia in 2022

59 fires larger than 100 hectares in Croatia in 2022, with 28,295 hectares burned according to their perimeters. Here is the whole year: what the official record says, when and where it burned and what the weather was like.

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the official yearly series.

The year in a few sentences

  1. According to Copernicus EFFIS, 32,943 hectares burned in Croatia in 2022: 2.7 times the average of the other years from 2006 to 2025 (12,209 ha). Only 2017 and 2012 burned more.

    Copernicus EFFIS · See the data

  2. The worst week was 19 March to 25 March: 16,222 hectares burned in seven days, 49% of the year according to Copernicus EFFIS.

    Copernicus EFFIS · See the data

  3. The largest fire was the Općina Gračac fire, which started on 21 March 2022 and burned 4,225 hectares: 15% of the area of the year's 59 fires with a page.

    WorldFires · See the data · Open the fire page

  4. The day of highest danger at a fire this year was 14 July 2022: a Fire Weather Index of 45 (very high on the EFFIS scale) at the Grad Vodice fire, calculated by WorldFires from ERA5.

    WorldFires · ERA5 · See the data · Open the fire page

Official burned area
33k ha
Copernicus EFFIS · ×2.7 the average
Fires with a page
59
28,295 ha within their perimeters
Largest fire
4,225 ha
Općina Gračac · 21 Mar
Highest FWI
45 Very high
14 Jul · Grad Vodice

Map of the year

Copernicus EFFIS
One circle per fire, sized by its area. Tap one to open its page.

Month by month

Hectares within the perimeters by the month the fire started. Tap a month to see it on the map.

Week by week, against other years

Copernicus EFFIS

Cumulative burned area in 2022 over the lowest and highest of each week in the record since 2006, and its average. The bars below show what burned each week. Tap the chart to see a week. The average and the band are the Copernicus EFFIS climatology for 2006–2025, which includes 2022 itself.

0 23k 45k 68k Worst week · 16k ha Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov
2022 average 2006–2025 lowest and highest Hectares each week

Every year since 2006

Copernicus EFFIS

Hectares burned per year in the official record. Tap a year to open its yearbook.

2022: 32,943 ha Average of the other years: 12,209 ha

Cite this

Markdown version

Copy the sentences with their source and link. WorldFires data are CC BY 4.0: credit WorldFires and the original source.

- According to Copernicus EFFIS, 32,943 hectares burned in Croatia in 2022: 2.7 times the average of the other years from 2006 to 2025 (12,209 ha). Only 2017 and 2012 burned more.
- The worst week was 19 March to 25 March: 16,222 hectares burned in seven days, 49% of the year according to Copernicus EFFIS.
- The largest fire was the Općina Gračac fire, which started on 21 March 2022 and burned 4,225 hectares: 15% of the area of the year's 59 fires with a page.
- The day of highest danger at a fire this year was 14 July 2022: a Fire Weather Index of 45 (very high on the EFFIS scale) at the Grad Vodice fire, calculated by WorldFires from ERA5.

WorldFires, “Wildfires in Croatia in 2022”, https://worldfires.org/en/country/croatia/2022 (accessed 11 November 2026). Sources: Copernicus EFFIS, WorldFires, WorldFires · ERA5.

Fires of 2022, largest first · 59

Burned area in 2022 (Copernicus Land, Sentinel-3)

According to Copernicus Land, 32,744 ha burned in 2022: rank 2 of 7 complete years (1 = the most burned). The average of those years is 31,218 ha.

The area the Sentinel-3 satellite sees burned each month, separate from the fire pages. It is the same source and the same method every year, so years can be compared with each other. It counts everything that burns, including crop and pasture burning, which is why it does not match the fire pages or the official statistics.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Where most burned in 2022

  1. Zadar County 6,600 ha
  2. Šibenik-Knin 6,373 ha
  3. Lika-Senj 5,669 ha
  4. Karlovac 2,208 ha
  5. Brod-Posavina 2,176 ha
  6. Vukovar-Syrmia 2,142 ha
  7. Split-Dalmatia 2,031 ha
  8. Dubrovnik-Neretva 1,799 ha
  9. Osijek-Baranja 1,708 ha
  10. Sisak-Moslavina 1,251 ha

The whole series since 2018

Source: Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, “Burnt Area 2018-present (raster 300 m), global, monthly – version 4”, monthly Sentinel-3 product, DOI 10.2909/8fa58061-28ab-49bb-9b77-c26b50733e34. Generated using European Union’s Copernicus Land Monitoring Service information; worldfires.org adds up, by country and region, the true area of the 300 m cells where a burn was detected. Latest month published: May 2026. Product page · Methodology

Sources and limits

Fire-page areas are satellite-measured perimeters and may differ from official statistics. The yearly and weekly record is the Copernicus EFFIS estimate. The FWI is our own calculation from ERA5 at each fire's location: it is not an official danger warning.

Official information for Croatia is published by: Hrvatska vatrogasna zajednica · Civilna zaštita

Perimeters: Copernicus EFFIS and GWIS (and MTBS, NIFC or NBAC in North America). Hotspots: NASA FIRMS (VIIRS). Weather: Copernicus ERA5 via Open-Meteo. How it is calculated