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Wildfires in Croatia in 2023

6 fires larger than 100 hectares in Croatia in 2023, with 2,446 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, 2,768 hectares burned in Croatia in 2023: 20% of the average of the other years from 2006 to 2025 (13,797 ha).

    Copernicus EFFIS · See the data

  2. The worst week was 23 July to 29 July: 1,238 hectares burned in seven days, 45% of the year according to Copernicus EFFIS.

    Copernicus EFFIS · See the data

  3. The largest fire was the Općina Župa dubrovačka fire, which started on 25 July 2023 and burned 686 hectares: 28% of the area of the year's 6 fires with a page.

    WorldFires · See the data · Open the fire page

  4. The day of highest danger at a fire this year was 13 July 2023: a Fire Weather Index of 35 (high on the EFFIS scale) at the Grad Šibenik fire, calculated by WorldFires from ERA5.

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

Official burned area
2,768 ha
Copernicus EFFIS · ×0.2 the average
Fires with a page
6
2,446 ha within their perimeters
Largest fire
686 ha
Općina Župa dubrovačka · 25 Jul
Highest FWI
35 High
13 Jul · Grad Šibenik

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 2023 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 2023 itself.

0 23k 45k 68k Worst week · 1,238 ha Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov
2023 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.

2023: 2,768 ha Average of the other years: 13,797 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, 2,768 hectares burned in Croatia in 2023: 20% of the average of the other years from 2006 to 2025 (13,797 ha).
- The worst week was 23 July to 29 July: 1,238 hectares burned in seven days, 45% of the year according to Copernicus EFFIS.
- The largest fire was the Općina Župa dubrovačka fire, which started on 25 July 2023 and burned 686 hectares: 28% of the area of the year's 6 fires with a page.
- The day of highest danger at a fire this year was 13 July 2023: a Fire Weather Index of 35 (high on the EFFIS scale) at the Grad Šibenik fire, calculated by WorldFires from ERA5.

WorldFires, “Wildfires in Croatia in 2023”, https://worldfires.org/en/country/croatia/2023 (accessed 15 November 2026). Sources: Copernicus EFFIS, WorldFires, WorldFires · ERA5.

Fires of 2023, largest first · 6

Burned area in 2023 (Copernicus Land, Sentinel-3)

According to Copernicus Land, 25,569 ha burned in 2023: rank 4 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 2023

  1. Osijek-Baranja 9,976 ha
  2. Vukovar-Syrmia 8,950 ha
  3. Primorje-Gorski Kotar 3,396 ha
  4. Šibenik-Knin 825 ha
  5. Sisak-Moslavina 707 ha
  6. Split-Dalmatia 557 ha
  7. Dubrovnik-Neretva 459 ha
  8. Lika-Senj 218 ha
  9. Brod-Posavina 201 ha
  10. Zadar County 133 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