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Wildfires in Serbia in 2018

17 fires larger than 100 hectares in Serbia in 2018, with 4,375 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, 5,774 hectares burned in Serbia in 2018: 55% of the average of the other years from 2007 to 2025 (10,422 ha).

    Copernicus EFFIS · See the data

  2. The worst week was 29 October to 4 November: 1,104 hectares burned in seven days, 19% of the year according to Copernicus EFFIS.

    Copernicus EFFIS · See the data

  3. The largest fire was the Bela Palanka Municipality fire, which started on 4 November 2018 and burned 786 hectares: 18% of the area of the year's 17 fires with a page.

    WorldFires · See the data · Open the fire page

  4. The day of highest danger at a fire this year was 15 October 2018: a Fire Weather Index of 56 (extreme on the EFFIS scale) at the Zrenjanin City fire, calculated by WorldFires from ERA5.

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

Official burned area
5,774 ha
Copernicus EFFIS · ×0.6 the average
Fires with a page
17
4,375 ha within their perimeters
Largest fire
786 ha
Bela Palanka Municipality · 4 Nov
Highest FWI
56 Extreme
15 Oct · Zrenjanin City

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 2018 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 2018 itself.

0 13k 26k 39k Worst week · 1,104 ha Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov
2018 average 2006–2025 lowest and highest Hectares each week

Every year since 2007

Copernicus EFFIS

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

2018: 5,774 ha Average of the other years: 10,422 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, 5,774 hectares burned in Serbia in 2018: 55% of the average of the other years from 2007 to 2025 (10,422 ha).
- The worst week was 29 October to 4 November: 1,104 hectares burned in seven days, 19% of the year according to Copernicus EFFIS.
- The largest fire was the Bela Palanka Municipality fire, which started on 4 November 2018 and burned 786 hectares: 18% of the area of the year's 17 fires with a page.
- The day of highest danger at a fire this year was 15 October 2018: a Fire Weather Index of 56 (extreme on the EFFIS scale) at the Zrenjanin City fire, calculated by WorldFires from ERA5.

WorldFires, “Wildfires in Serbia in 2018”, https://worldfires.org/en/country/serbia/2018 (accessed 8 November 2026). Sources: Copernicus EFFIS, WorldFires, WorldFires · ERA5.

Fires of 2018, largest first · 17

Burned area in 2018 (Copernicus Land, Sentinel-3)

According to Copernicus Land, 335,715 ha burned in 2018 (Jul–Dec). 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Where most burned in 2018

  1. Južnobanatski upravni okrug 82,022 ha
  2. Srednjobanatski upravni okrug 75,136 ha
  3. Južnobački upravni okrug 48,092 ha
  4. Syrmia District 45,631 ha
  5. Zapadnobački upravni okrug 26,339 ha
  6. Severnobanatski upravni okrug 16,601 ha
  7. Braničevski upravni okrug 7,973 ha
  8. Borski upravni okrug 7,816 ha
  9. Severnobački upravni okrug 5,404 ha
  10. Nišavski upravni okrug 5,202 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 Serbia is published by: Сектор за ванредне ситуације · МУП

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