Općina Orebić fire, August 2026 Općina Orebić
The fire started on 14 August 2026 in Općina Orebić, Croatia, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 291 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 12th largest in Dubrovnik-Neretva since 2016 (of 27 with a page). Number 10 in Croatia in 2026, of 25.
The power measured by the satellite is low (11.4 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
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- Burnt area
- 291ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- ≈ 2days
- 14 Aug 2026 – 15 Aug 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 14 Aug
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 3
- in a single hotspot: 11 MW
- Danger at start
- 38
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 10MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 17 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
What happened to each town
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Općina Orebić where it started291 ha reached on 14 Aug2.2 %
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
- Agricultural areas76 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland21 %
- Other natural land2.8 %
Natura 2000 protected area affected: 100 %
- ZEPA Srednjedalmatinski otoci i Pelješac HR1000036
Natura 2000 sites (European Environment Agency, 2024 release) crossed by the perimeter.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Aug | 33.3 °C | 27 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 15 Aug | 32.2 °C | 37 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 16 Aug after | 31.8 °C | 42 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 17 Aug after | 31.8 °C | 43 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 18 Aug after | 30.4 °C | 42 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 19 Aug after | 32.2 °C | 36 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 20 Aug after | 33.1 °C | 34 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 21 Aug after | 32.6 °C | 45 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 22 Aug after | 33.3 °C | 34 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 23 Aug after | 32.8 °C | 31 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 24 Aug after | 32.2 °C | 32 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 25 Aug after | 30.6 °C | 40 % | 41 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 35 |
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 17 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 23 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 18: 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 · 3Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 2,027 haNeumAugust 2022 · 7 days · 35 km away
- 1,846 haČapljina21 August 2017 · 3 days · 37 km away
- 1,965 haNeumAugust 2025 · 3 days · 38 km away
- 712 haČapljinaOctober 2017 · 1 day · 38 km away
- 1,444 haOpćina Dubrovačko primorjeJuly 2017 · 6 days · 40 km away
- 1,259 haOpćina TučepiJuly 2024 · 4 days · 40 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Općina Orebić fire last?
- The official perimeter only gives the start date (14 August 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 15 August 2026 (2 days from 14 August 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 291 hectares (2.9 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Općina Orebić (291 ha, 2.2 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 33.3 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 28 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, class High.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Croatia (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: 112 · 193 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
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.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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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. 3 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-ShareAlike 2.0). 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.