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Nevesinje fire, 7 August 2026 Nevesinje

Out · last detection 10 Aug 2026, 23:52 UTC

The fire started on 7 August 2026 in Nevesinje, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 2,545 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 13th largest in Republika Srpska since 2016 (of 391 with a page). Number 6 in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2026, of 94.

Burnt area
2,545ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
3days
7 Aug 2026 – 9 Aug 2026
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
7 Aug
2026
Heat detections
241
in a single hotspot: 103 MW
Danger at start
13
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
135MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

10 Aug 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Aug9 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

7810

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

30°high
37km/h · peak gust
41%lowest humidity

It had gone 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

20% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 179 ha in 2019, 179 ha in 2021, 270 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 503 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Nevesinje where it started
    2,550 ha reached on 7 Aug
    2.6 %

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

  • Broadleaved forest41 %
  • Other natural land33 %
  • Agricultural areas17 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland8.1 %

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)
7 Aug 30.0 °C 41 % 37 km/h 1.2 mm Moderate 13
8 Aug 27.0 °C 58 % 34 km/h 0.9 mm Low 8
9 Aug 28.7 °C 44 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
10 Aug after 31.2 °C 33 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
11 Aug after 30.8 °C 34 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
12 Aug after 29.1 °C 41 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
13 Aug after 27.9 °C 36 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
14 Aug after 27.4 °C 36 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
15 Aug after 28.5 °C 34 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
16 Aug after 29.2 °C 37 % 30 km/h 0.1 mm High 22
17 Aug after 28.8 °C 37 % 42 km/h 0.3 mm High 24
18 Aug after 24.7 °C 43 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 21
19 Aug after 29.0 °C 33 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 23

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 31 Jul 2026
After · 16 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 9 September 2026 the air beside the fire reached 151 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 78: 5.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak151 µg/m³
Days over the guideline16 days
PM10188 µg/m³
Optical depth1.18
56789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930311234567891011
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 · 241Every 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 Nevesinje fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 7 August 2026 and 9 August 2026: 3 days between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 2,545 hectares (25.4 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Nevesinje (2,550 ha, 2.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 30.0 °C, humidity dropped to 41 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 14, class Moderate.
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.