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Glamoč fire, August 2026 Glamoč

Out · last measured on 15 Aug 2026

The fire started on 15 August 2026 in Glamoč, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 135 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 414th largest in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2016 (of 520 with a page). Number 73 in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2026, of 94.

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
135ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
15 Aug 2026 – 15 Aug 2026
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
15 Aug
2026
Danger at start
24
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

30°high
22km/h · peak gust
29%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 5.4 mm on 25 Aug.

This area had burned before

76% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 101 ha in 2017, 86 ha in 2020. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 102 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Glamoč where it started
    136 ha
    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 land75 %
  • Agricultural areas25 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

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)
15 Aug 30.3 °C 29 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
16 Aug after 30.5 °C 34 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
17 Aug after 28.8 °C 37 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
18 Aug after 28.1 °C 30 % 30 km/h 0.1 mm High 26
19 Aug after 30.0 °C 33 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
20 Aug after 30.8 °C 33 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
21 Aug after 29.5 °C 47 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
22 Aug after 29.5 °C 33 % 41 km/h 0.2 mm High 27
23 Aug after 29.3 °C 34 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
24 Aug after 30.0 °C 30 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
25 Aug after 23.6 °C 54 % 56 km/h 5.4 mm Very low 4

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 8 Aug 2026
After · 22 Aug 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 16 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 25 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 16: 1.1 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak25 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1034 µg/m³
Optical depth0.43
131415161718
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)

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Glamoč fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 15 August 2026 and 15 August 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 135 hectares (1.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Glamoč (136 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 30.3 °C, humidity dropped to 29 % and gusts hit 22 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 24, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Bosnia & Herzegovina (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: 123 · 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 ADM3 (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.