How long did the Ulcinj Municipality fire last?

The official perimeter only gives the start date (10 August 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 20 August 2026 (11 days from 10 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 926 hectares (9.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Ulcinj Municipality (903 ha, 3.8 %); Bar Municipality (24 ha, 0.0 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 33.8 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 28 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, class High.

Where does this data come from?

From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Montenegro (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

ME · Montenegro · 2026-08-10 → 2026-08-20

Ulcinj Municipality fire, 10 August 2026 Ulcinj Municipality, Bar Municipality

Out · last detection 20 Aug 2026, 11:47 UTC

The fire started on 10 August 2026 in Ulcinj Municipality, Montenegro, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 926 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.

Number 8 in Montenegro in 2026, of 54.

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Burnt area: 926ha; Copernicus perimeter
Duration: ≈ 11days; 10 Aug 2026 – 20 Aug 2026
Municipalities hit: 2; municipalities
Started on: 10 Aug; 2026
Heat detections: 40; in a single hotspot: 38 MW
Danger at start: 18; Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power: 59MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Aug20 Aug

Play back 20 Aug 2026

How it evolved, day by day

13 Aug 14 Aug 15 Aug 16 Aug 20 Aug

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

The weather it burned in

34°high

28km/h · peak gust

30%lowest humidity

It had gone 13 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

0% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1 ha in 2023.

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 0.6% of the area of London (9.3 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

Ulcinj Municipality where it started

903 ha reached on 13 Aug

3.8 %
Bar Municipality

24 ha reached on 14 Aug

0.0 %

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

Scrub and transitional woodland52 %
Other natural land33 %
Broadleaved forest11 %
Agricultural areas3.8 %

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

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2025

Built-up area< 0.1 ha

Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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)
10 Aug	31.5 °C	50 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
11 Aug	30.7 °C	63 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
12 Aug	33.8 °C	36 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 26
13 Aug	33.3 °C	32 %	28 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
14 Aug	31.6 °C	40 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
15 Aug	30.8 °C	30 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	High 28
16 Aug	28.1 °C	62 %	18 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 16
17 Aug	28.1 °C	69 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 14
18 Aug	27.7 °C	71 %	21 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
19 Aug	29.6 °C	45 %	25 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
20 Aug	30.0 °C	57 %	16 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
21 Aug after	30.2 °C	54 %	17 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
22 Aug after	29.5 °C	57 %	20 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
23 Aug after	31.2 °C	53 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	High 24
24 Aug after	30.2 °C	55 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
25 Aug after	31.0 °C	51 %	23 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 21
26 Aug after	29.5 °C	63 %	27 km/h	0.2 mm	Moderate 20
27 Aug after	30.4 °C	55 %	24 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 20
28 Aug after	30.2 °C	67 %	27 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 18
29 Aug after	32.0 °C	60 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17
30 Aug after	31.7 °C	58 %	19 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 17

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 3 Aug 2026

After · 27 Aug 2026

Before After

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 52 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 22: 1.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak52 µg/m³

Days over the guideline4 days

PM1059 µg/m³

Optical depth0.55

WHO 15

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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 · 40Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Ulcinj Municipality fire last?: The official perimeter only gives the start date (10 August 2026). The end comes from the heat detections inside the perimeter: it burned until 20 August 2026 (11 days from 10 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 926 hectares (9.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Ulcinj Municipality (903 ha, 3.8 %); Bar Municipality (24 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 33.8 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 28 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 28, class High.
Where does this data come from?: From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Montenegro (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 · 123 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

Satellite cross-check

NASA FIRMS ↗
EFFIS · Copernicus ↗

History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

26 October 2026 Last day with fire: 10 August 2026 → 20 August 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. 40 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.
Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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 ADM1 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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.

Where it burned