Khust fire, 11 March 2026 Хуст · Khust
The fire started on 11 March 2026 in Khust, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 336 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 4th largest in Zakarpattia Oblast since 2016 (of 24 with a page). Number 240 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.
- Burnt area
- 336ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 11 Mar 2026 – 11 Mar 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 11 Mar
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 4
- in a single hotspot: 6 MW
- Danger at start
- 8
- Low · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
62% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 208 ha in 2022.
What happened to each town
-
335 ha reached on 16 Mar0.3 %
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
- Agricultural areas71 %
- Broadleaved forest19 %
- Mixed forest10 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Mar | 17.7 °C | 23 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 12 Mar after | 18.5 °C | 24 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 13 Mar after | 19.0 °C | 27 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 9 |
| 14 Mar after | 17.7 °C | 18 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 15 Mar after | 17.6 °C | 19 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 16 Mar after | 15.5 °C | 29 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 17 Mar after | 15.1 °C | 36 % | 30 km/h | 0.3 mm | Low 10 |
| 18 Mar after | 15.1 °C | 32 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 19 Mar after | 10.9 °C | 43 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 20 Mar after | 11.8 °C | 38 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 9 |
| 21 Mar after | 12.5 °C | 41 % | 38 km/h | 0.2 mm | Low 10 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 13 March 2026 the air beside the fire reached 23 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 17: 1.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 4Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Khust fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 11 March 2026 and 11 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 336 hectares (3.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Khust (335 ha, 0.3 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The closest fire to a town centre came within 19.0 km of Khust. 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 17.7 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 23 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 8, 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.
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.