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Drohobych fire, 6 March 2026 Дрогобицький район · Drohobych

Out · last measured on 6 Mar 2026

The fire started on 6 March 2026 in Drohobych, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 123 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 79th largest in Lviv Oblast since 2016 (of 105 with a page). Number 772 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

Burnt area
123ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
6 Mar 2026 – 6 Mar 2026
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
6 Mar
2026
Heat detections
1
in a single hotspot: 4 MW
Danger at start
3
Very low · FWI index

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Mar6 Mar

The weather it burned in

12°high
23km/h · peak gust
39%lowest humidity

It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

98% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 57 ha in 2022, 32 ha in 2023, 99 ha in 2024, 98 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 121 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Drohobych Дрогобицький район 24.2 km from the town where it started
    124 ha reached on 16 Mar
    0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Other natural land51 %
  • Mixed forest43 %
  • Agricultural areas4.9 %
  • Broadleaved forest0.8 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

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)
6 Mar 12.4 °C 39 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 3
7 Mar after 13.7 °C 36 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
8 Mar after 12.4 °C 39 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
9 Mar after 16.6 °C 33 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 5
10 Mar after 16.8 °C 25 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Low 7
11 Mar after 17.9 °C 20 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
12 Mar after 18.1 °C 30 % 24 km/h 0.2 mm Low 8
13 Mar after 18.0 °C 35 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
14 Mar after 17.4 °C 28 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
15 Mar after 14.1 °C 36 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
16 Mar after 16.7 °C 24 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 27 Feb 2026
After · 13 Mar 2026

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 5 March 2026 the air beside the fire reached 41 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 22: 1.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak41 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM1045 µg/m³
Optical depth0.16
456789
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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 · 1Every 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 timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Drohobych fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 6 March 2026 and 6 March 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 123 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Drohobych (124 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 24.2 km of Drohobych. 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 12.4 °C, humidity dropped to 39 % and gusts hit 23 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 3, class Very low.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Ukraine (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: 101 · 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 (Public Domain). 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.