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Wildfires in Ukraine

5,662 fires over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2020, adding up to 2,133,178 hectares burned across 337 districts.

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.

These figures leave out 94 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed); 69 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

The official record

2006–2026
Yearly average 2020–2025379,323 ha
Worst year2024 917,879 ha
With a page here5,662 since 2020
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›See the year-by-year table
Year Fires hectares Source
20262,767 437,324 EFFIS
20254,181 600,759 EFFIS
20245,281 917,879 EFFIS
20231,272 213,921 EFFIS
20221,382 260,588 EFFIS
202198 27,385 EFFIS
2020209 255,408 EFFIS
20190 — EFFIS
20180 — EFFIS
20170 — EFFIS
20160 — EFFIS
20150 — EFFIS
20140 — EFFIS
20130 — EFFIS
20120 — EFFIS
20110 — EFFIS
20100 — EFFIS
20090 — EFFIS
20080 — EFFIS
20070 — EFFIS
20060 — EFFIS

National estimates from Copernicus EFFIS, which only counts fires larger than 30 hectares.

When it burned: year by year, month by month

Hectares with an official perimeter by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecΣLargest of the year
2026
115
19k
7k
23k
101k
73k
77k
33k
100
 332,817 Mykolaiv 5,574 ha
2025
5k
23k
47k
25k
13k
73k
146k
80k
33k
5k
225
 450,605 Boikivske 10,977 ha
2024
18k
50k
35k
44k
26k
176k
172k
195k
23k
2k
159
 740,826 Seredyna-Buda 9,145 ha
2023
1k
1k
3k
953
3k
6k
15k
43k
83k
14k
779
 170,730 Beryslav 4,178 ha
2022
4k
8k
99k
15k
27k
9k
19k
14k
1k
4k
268
 200,688 Ivankiv 6,968 ha
2021
5k
217
308
4k
 9,643 Dubrovytsia 2,260 ha
2020
16k
163k
138
9k
35k
4k
 227,869 Narodychi 45,987 ha

Hectares burned per year

2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

Largest recorded fires

By region

  1. Kherson Oblast 426,416 ha · 1083
  2. Luhansk Oblast 392,922 ha · 954
  3. Donetsk Oblast 299,749 ha · 1061
  4. Kharkiv Oblast 155,168 ha · 592
  5. Kyiv Oblast 132,800 ha · 138
  6. Zhytomyr Oblast 126,321 ha · 192
  7. Zaporizhzhia Oblast 119,997 ha · 500
  8. Rivne Oblast 82,923 ha · 185
  9. Chernihiv Oblast 55,880 ha · 162
  10. Odessa Oblast 54,481 ha · 115
  11. Mykolaiv Oblast 53,576 ha · 113
  12. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 52,589 ha · 203

and 14 more regions with less area

Fires in 2026 · 1076

Fires in 2025 · 1374

Fires in 2024 · 2108

Fires in 2023 · 506

Fires in 2022 · 550

Fires in 2021 · 54

Fires in 2020 · 157