How long did the Chashka fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 3 October 2026 to 11 October 2026 (9 days between the first and the last detection). There is no perimeter yet to date it.

How much area did it burn?

There is no official perimeter yet. Heat detections rebuild about 238 hectares with fire (2.4 km²); Copernicus will publish the measured figure within days.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Chashka (182 ha, 0.2 %); Studenichani (56 ha, 0.2 %).

Is the Chashka fire still active?

No fire detections since 11 Oct 2026, 01:07 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.

Did the fire reach a town?

The closest fire to a town centre came within 19.2 km of Chashka. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 20.1 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 9, class Low.

Where does this data come from?

From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of North Macedonia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

MK · North Macedonia · 2026-10-03 → 2026-10-11

Chashka fire, October 2026 Општина Чашка · Chashka, Studenichani

Out · last detection 11 Oct 2026, 01:07 UTC

Satellites first detected fire on 3 October 2026 in Chashka, North Macedonia. It has been active for 9 days, with 37 heat detections and an area with fire of about 238 hectares rebuilt from them, spread across 2 municipalities.

Copernicus has not yet published the burnt perimeter, which takes a few days to measure on satellite imagery. For now the area is the one rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per pixel). When the perimeter arrives, this page picks it up on its own and keeps the same address.

Area with fire: ≈ 238ha; rebuilt from hotspots, no official perimeter yet
Duration: 9days; 3 Oct 2026 – 11 Oct 2026
Municipalities hit: 2; municipalities
Started on: 3 Oct; 2026
Heat detections: 37; in a single hotspot: 174 MW
Danger at start: 7; Low · FWI index
Energy released: 923MW; sum of detected power

Play back 11 Oct 2026

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 3 Oct11 Oct

How it evolved, day by day

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Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

20°high

35km/h · peak gust

23%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

What happened to each town

Chashka Општина Чашка 7,942 inhabitants · 19.2 km from the town where it started

182 ha reached on 3 Oct

0.2 %
Studenichani Општина Студеничани 21,970 inhabitants · 21.8 km from the town

56 ha reached on 10 Oct

0.2 %

Area with fire inside each municipality, rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per VIIRS pixel). An estimate until the official perimeter arrives. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day	High	Min. humidity	Peak gust	Rain	Danger (FWI)
3 Oct	14.9 °C	23 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 7
4 Oct	15.8 °C	37 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 7
5 Oct	18.0 °C	24 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
6 Oct	18.5 °C	24 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 9
7 Oct	18.5 °C	29 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 9
8 Oct	20.1 °C	31 %	22 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 9
9 Oct	19.0 °C	53 %	18 km/h	0.1 mm	Low 7
10 Oct	19.8 °C	43 %	35 km/h	0.6 mm	Low 7

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

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Before · 26 Sept 2026

After · 18 Oct 2026

Before After

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 6 October 2026 the air beside the fire reached 162 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 82: 5.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak162 µg/m³

Days over the guideline3 days

PM10174 µg/m³

Optical depth0.27

WHO 15

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Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 37Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.

⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.

Date and time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Chashka fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 3 October 2026 to 11 October 2026 (9 days between the first and the last detection). There is no perimeter yet to date it.
How much area did it burn?: There is no official perimeter yet. Heat detections rebuild about 238 hectares with fire (2.4 km²); Copernicus will publish the measured figure within days.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Chashka (182 ha, 0.2 %); Studenichani (56 ha, 0.2 %).
Is the Chashka fire still active?: No fire detections since 11 Oct 2026, 01:07 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
Did the fire reach a town?: The closest fire to a town centre came within 19.2 km of Chashka. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 20.1 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 9, class Low.
Where does this data come from?: From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of North Macedonia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 193 · 112

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.

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