Burned area
satellite only2,056ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 7 September 2026
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MK · North Macedonia · –
Makedonski Brod fire, 1 September 2026 Општина Македонски Брод · Makedonski Brod
Out · last detection 25 Sept 2026, 00:50 UTC
The fire started on 1 September 2026 in Makedonski Brod, North Macedonia, and satellites saw it burning for 25 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,056 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 5th largest in Southwest since 2016 (of 62 with a page). Number 2 in North Macedonia in 2026, of 40.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only25days
1 Sept 2026 to 25 Sept 2026: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 25 Sept 2026, 00:50 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only1 Sept 2026
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 1 Sept 2026
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only240
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 148 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 1 Sept 2026 – 25 Sept 2026
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only408MW
Total radiative power on 24 September 2026; hotspots that day: 5.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 24 Sept 2026
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model24.4FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 2.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 1 Sept 2026, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model29.1°C · 32% RH
High of 29.1 °C and minimum humidity of 32% on 1 September 2026; gusts of 49 km/h on 4 September 2026.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 1 Sept 2026 – 25 Sept 2026
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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· reconstructed perimeterEFFIS (Copernicus) revises the perimeter
What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 2,056 ha
- Dates
- 1 Sept 2026 – 25 Sept 2026
- Name
- Makedonski Brod
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/makedonski-brod-2026-09?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire makedonski-brod-2026-09.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 2 | 8 | 29.1 | 14.8 | 32 | 8.4 | 29.5 | 0 | 24.4 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-02 | 18 | 47 | 26.7 | 14.5 | 41 | 7.9 | 23.4 | 9.7 | 22.4 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-03 | 0 | 0 | 25.7 | 12.2 | 29 | 10.9 | 37.1 | 1 | 3.7 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2026-09-04 | 2 | 18 | 24.2 | 13.2 | 32 | 12.2 | 49 | 0 | 17.9 | moderado | 1 |
| 2026-09-05 | 11 | 97 | 28.6 | 10.8 | 28 | 5.4 | 18.7 | 0 | 18.7 | moderado | 1 |
| 2026-09-06 | 16 | 79 | 24.8 | 14 | 32 | 11 | 43.2 | 0 | 25.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-07 | 26 | 342 | 24.5 | 12.8 | 37 | 7.2 | 27 | 0 | 21.1 | moderado | 1 |
| 2026-09-08 | 30 | 341 | 25.6 | 13 | 39 | 6.4 | 22.7 | 0 | 21 | moderado | 1 |
| 2026-09-09 | 28 | 159 | 26 | 13.1 | 39 | 4.9 | 22 | 0.3 | 21.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-10 | 35 | 255 | 26.6 | 11.8 | 36 | 5.6 | 24.8 | 0 | 21.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-11 | 48 | 294 | 28.9 | 11.7 | 27 | 7.4 | 31.3 | 0 | 28.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-12 | 5 | 8 | 21 | 11.2 | 57 | 10.4 | 32.8 | 2.6 | 22.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-13 | 0 | 0 | 18.5 | 8.2 | 36 | 10.7 | 38.5 | 0 | 6.6 | bajo | 1 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 19.9 | 7 | 37 | 7.2 | 25.9 | 0 | 11.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2026-09-15 | 1 | 1 | 17.9 | 9.7 | 56 | 5.9 | 21.2 | 2 | 5.2 | bajo | 1 |
| 2026-09-16 | 0 | 0 | 20.7 | 10.1 | 42 | 5.1 | 16.9 | 0.4 | 9.3 | bajo | 1 |
| 2026-09-17 | 0 | 0 | 23.7 | 7 | 36 | 4.9 | 15.8 | 0 | 15.5 | moderado | 1 |
| 2026-09-18 | 2 | 4 | 24.2 | 8.3 | 32 | 4.5 | 16.9 | 0 | 18.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2026-09-19 | 6 | 12 | 23.3 | 13 | 43 | 6 | 20.9 | 0.1 | 19.5 | moderado | 1 |
| 2026-09-20 | 4 | 40 | 23 | 10.6 | 43 | 5.2 | 19.4 | 0 | 18.1 | moderado | 1 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 0 | 20.7 | 9 | 46 | 11 | 41 | 0.9 | 22.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-22 | 0 | 0 | 14.2 | 5.1 | 36 | 11.9 | 42.8 | 0.8 | 11.9 | moderado | 1 |
| 2026-09-23 | 0 | 0 | 13.3 | 4.3 | 39 | 13.3 | 48.6 | 0 | 15.9 | moderado | 1 |
| 2026-09-24 | 5 | 408 | 15.6 | 1.8 | 31 | 5.4 | 19.4 | 0 | 14.4 | moderado | 1 |
| 2026-09-25 | 1 | 2 | 10.5 | 4.6 | 67 | 6.2 | 31.7 | 14.5 | 2.8 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2026-09-26 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 6.8 | 72 | 8.3 | 37.4 | 10.5 | 0 | muy_bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 2,056ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- ≈ 25days
- 1 Sept 2026 – 25 Sept 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 1 Sept
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 240
- in a single hotspot: 148 MW
- Danger at start
- 24
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 124MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
1 Sept25 Sept
25 Sept 2026
How it evolved, day by day
1 Sept
6 Sept
10 Sept
18 Sept
24 Sept
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
29°high
49km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity
It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 10.5 mm on 26 Sept.
This area had burned before
2% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 22 ha in 2021, 25 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 36 ha that had burned before.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Makedonski Brod Општина Македонски Брод 5,889 inhabitants · 18.1 km from the centre where it started2,060 ha reached on 1 Sept2.3 %
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
- Coniferous forest48 %
- Other natural land24 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland23 %
- Mixed forest4.0 %
- Broadleaved forest0.5 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Sept | 29.1 °C | 32 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 2 Sept | 26.7 °C | 41 % | 23 km/h | 9.7 mm | High 22 |
| 3 Sept | 25.7 °C | 29 % | 37 km/h | 1.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 4 Sept | 24.2 °C | 32 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 5 Sept | 28.6 °C | 28 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 6 Sept | 24.8 °C | 32 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 7 Sept | 24.5 °C | 37 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 8 Sept | 25.6 °C | 39 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 9 Sept | 26.0 °C | 39 % | 22 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 22 |
| 10 Sept | 26.6 °C | 36 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 11 Sept | 28.9 °C | 27 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 12 Sept | 21.0 °C | 57 % | 33 km/h | 2.6 mm | High 23 |
| 13 Sept | 18.5 °C | 36 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 7 |
| 14 Sept | 19.9 °C | 37 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 11 |
| 15 Sept | 17.9 °C | 56 % | 21 km/h | 2.0 mm | Low 5 |
| 16 Sept | 20.7 °C | 42 % | 17 km/h | 0.4 mm | Low 9 |
| 17 Sept | 23.7 °C | 36 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 18 Sept | 24.2 °C | 32 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 19 Sept | 23.3 °C | 43 % | 21 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 20 Sept | 23.0 °C | 43 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 21 Sept | 20.7 °C | 46 % | 41 km/h | 0.9 mm | High 23 |
| 22 Sept | 14.2 °C | 36 % | 43 km/h | 0.8 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 23 Sept | 13.3 °C | 39 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 24 Sept | 15.6 °C | 31 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 25 Sept | 10.5 °C | 67 % | 32 km/h | 14.5 mm | Very low 3 |
| 26 Sept after | 11.0 °C | 72 % | 37 km/h | 10.5 mm | Very low 0 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 24.4, a minimum humidity of 32% and 2 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 36.
FWI at the start
24.4
Minimum humidity
32 %
Days without rain
2
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Makedonski Brod fire, 1 September 2026
2,056 ha
25 days
FWI 24.4
Min. humidity 32 %
Dibër fire, September 2017
129 ha
1 day
FWI 22.9
Min. humidity 32 %
87 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 9.1 mm on 3 Sept.
Novatsi fire, September 2023
993 ha
3 days
FWI 23.3
Min. humidity 33 %
72 km away, in 2023
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 30.4 mm on 25 Sept.
Prilep fire, June 2025
210 ha
9 days
FWI 21.5
Min. humidity 32 %
84 km away, in 2025
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.7 mm on 17 Jul.
Cheshinovo - Obleshevo fire, August 2016
1,789 ha
3 days
FWI 25.6
Min. humidity 31 %
80 km away, in 2016
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 8.1 mm on 1 Sept.
Rosoman fire, October 2017
260 ha
1 day
FWI 26.1
Min. humidity 31 %
53 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 9.0 mm on 23 Oct.
What happened to them
- 5 days
- median duration
- 287 ha
- median area
- 11 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 4.1 mm
- rain at the end (median; 30 of 36 had it)
It was 7.2 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 25 days, against 5 days.
Only 2 of its 36 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 6 of 36, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 4.1 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
10.5 mmfirst rain
26 Septthe day after it ended
49km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 25 Sept, and on 26 Sept 10.5 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 30 of 36, with a median of 4.1 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 25 Aug 2026
After · 2 Oct 2026
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 1 September 2026 the air beside the fire reached 25 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 18: 1.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak25 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM1046 µg/m³
Optical depth0.47
WHO 15
30 Aug1 Sept3 Sept
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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 · 240Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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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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Other fires nearby
- 2,807 haMakedonski Brod Општина Македонски Брод28 July 2024 · 12 days · 7 km away
- 3,768 haMakedonski Brod Општина Македонски Брод2 July 2025 · 9 days · 16 km away
- 5,197 haMakedonski Brod Општина Македонски БродJuly 2017 · 19 days · 21 km away
- 1,749 haMakedonski Brod Општина Македонски БродSeptember 2019 · 5 days · 22 km away
- 6,884 haChashka Општина Чашка14 August 2024 · 15 days · 35 km away
- 1,813 haSaraj Општина СарајJuly 2017 · 10 days · 37 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Makedonski Brod fire last?
- The official perimeter only gives the start date (1 September 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 25 September 2026 (25 days from 1 September 2026), the last day with detections before more than 10 days in a row without any, so it is approximate.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 2,056 hectares (20.6 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Makedonski Brod (2,060 ha, 2.3 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Makedonski Brod and came within 18.1 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 29.1 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 49 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 29, class High.
- 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 36. Their median duration was 5 days and their median area 287 ha; 11 % went past 1,000 ha. Only 2 of its 36 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 6 of 36, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 4.1 mm.
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 · Emergency number and official warnings
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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.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- The official perimeter has no end date: the end is the last day with VIIRS detections inside the perimeter before a gap of more than 10 days (150 days at most), so it is approximate. 240 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.
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.