Wildfires in Latvia in 2026
2 fires larger than 100 hectares in Latvia in 2026, with 318 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.
Year in progress: the figures change every day until the year closes and are not compared with complete years.
The year in a few sentences
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The worst week so far was 30 April to 6 May: 168 hectares burned in seven days, 53% of the year to date according to Copernicus EFFIS.
Copernicus EFFIS · See the data
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The largest fire was the Ādažu pag. fire, which started on 2 May 2026 and burned 168 hectares: 53% of the area of the year's 2 fires with a page.
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Map of the year
Copernicus EFFISMonth 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 EFFISCumulative burned area in 2026 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.
Every year since 2008
Copernicus EFFISHectares burned per year in the official record. Tap a year to open its yearbook.
Cite this
Copy the sentences with their source and link. WorldFires data are CC BY 4.0: credit WorldFires and the original source.
- The worst week so far was 30 April to 6 May: 168 hectares burned in seven days, 53% of the year to date according to Copernicus EFFIS. - The largest fire was the Ādažu pag. fire, which started on 2 May 2026 and burned 168 hectares: 53% of the area of the year's 2 fires with a page. WorldFires, “Wildfires in Latvia in 2026”, https://worldfires.org/en/country/latvia/2026 (accessed 11 November 2026). Sources: Copernicus EFFIS, WorldFires.
Fires of 2026, largest first · 2
Burned area in 2026 (Copernicus Land, Sentinel-3)
According to Copernicus Land, 228 ha burned in 2026 (Jan–May). The year is not complete, so it is not compared with the others.
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.
Where most burned in 2026
- Ādažu novads 114 ha
- Kuldīgas novads 84 ha
- Dienvidkurzemes novads 31 ha
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.
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