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Wildfires in Croatia in 2024

14 fires larger than 100 hectares in Croatia in 2024, with 15,455 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, 15,886 hectares burned in Croatia in 2024: 1.2 times the average of the other years from 2006 to 2025 (13,107 ha).

    Copernicus EFFIS · See the data

  2. The worst week was 12 August to 18 August: 7,121 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 Hrvace fire, which started on 16 August 2024 and burned 2,778 hectares: 18% of the area of the year's 14 fires with a page.

    WorldFires · See the data · Open the fire page

  4. The day of highest danger at a fire this year was 30 July 2024: a Fire Weather Index of 56 (extreme on the EFFIS scale) at the Grad Skradin fire, calculated by WorldFires from ERA5.

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

Official burned area
16k ha
Copernicus EFFIS · ×1.2 the average
Fires with a page
14
15,455 ha within their perimeters
Largest fire
2,778 ha
Općina Hrvace · 16 Aug
Highest FWI
56 Extreme
30 Jul · Grad Skradin

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 2024 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 2024 itself.

0 23k 45k 68k Worst week · 7,121 ha Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov
2024 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.

2024: 15,886 ha Average of the other years: 13,107 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, 15,886 hectares burned in Croatia in 2024: 1.2 times the average of the other years from 2006 to 2025 (13,107 ha).
- The worst week was 12 August to 18 August: 7,121 hectares burned in seven days, 45% of the year according to Copernicus EFFIS.
- The largest fire was the Općina Hrvace fire, which started on 16 August 2024 and burned 2,778 hectares: 18% of the area of the year's 14 fires with a page.
- The day of highest danger at a fire this year was 30 July 2024: a Fire Weather Index of 56 (extreme on the EFFIS scale) at the Grad Skradin fire, calculated by WorldFires from ERA5.

WorldFires, “Wildfires in Croatia in 2024”, https://worldfires.org/en/country/croatia/2024 (accessed 15 November 2026). Sources: Copernicus EFFIS, WorldFires, WorldFires · ERA5.

Fires of 2024, largest first · 14

Burned area in 2024 (Copernicus Land, Sentinel-3)

According to Copernicus Land, 21,888 ha burned in 2024: rank 5 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 2024

  1. Šibenik-Knin 6,561 ha
  2. Split-Dalmatia 6,349 ha
  3. Vukovar-Syrmia 4,173 ha
  4. Brod-Posavina 1,300 ha
  5. Zagreb County 1,090 ha
  6. Zadar County 1,063 ha
  7. Osijek-Baranja 486 ha
  8. Sisak-Moslavina 324 ha
  9. Virovitica-Podravina 207 ha
  10. Krapina-Zagorje 129 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