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Drohobych fire, 10 March 2026 Дрогобицький район · Drohobych

Out · last measured on 22 Mar 2026

The fire started on 10 March 2026 in Drohobych, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 13 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 252 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 29th largest in Lviv Oblast since 2016 (of 105 with a page). Number 350 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.

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We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
252ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
13days
10 Mar 2026 – 22 Mar 2026
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
10 Mar
2026
Danger at start
6
Low · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

17°high
26km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

35% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 25 ha in 2022, 26 ha in 2024, 58 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 87 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Drohobych Дрогобицький район 30.1 km from the centre where it started
    252 ha
    0.1 %

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

What burned

  • Mixed forest50 %
  • Other natural land38 %
  • Broadleaved forest7.1 %
  • Agricultural areas5.1 %

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)
10 Mar 16.9 °C 26 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
11 Mar 18.2 °C 20 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
12 Mar 17.9 °C 30 % 22 km/h 0.1 mm Low 8
13 Mar 17.2 °C 37 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
14 Mar 16.7 °C 32 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
15 Mar 13.8 °C 37 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Low 11
16 Mar 16.3 °C 27 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
17 Mar 12.8 °C 45 % 20 km/h 0.3 mm Low 7
18 Mar 12.0 °C 37 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
19 Mar 9.1 °C 55 % 26 km/h 0.7 mm Very low 4
20 Mar 11.5 °C 41 % 22 km/h 0.1 mm Low 5

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 3 Mar 2026
After · 29 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 13 March 2026 the air beside the fire reached 21 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 15: 1.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak21 µg/m³
Days over the guideline1 day
PM1024 µg/m³
Optical depth0.32
8910111213
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)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Drohobych fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 10 March 2026 to 22 March 2026 (13 days). The perimeter dates it from 10 March 2026 to 10 March 2026.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 252 hectares (2.5 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Drohobych (252 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Drohobych and came within 30.1 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 16.9 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 26 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 6, class 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.

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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 10 March 2026 to 10 March 2026. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.