Burned area
satellite only118ha
Perimeter published by EFFIS (Copernicus).
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- EFFIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- perimeter revised on 18 March 2026
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UA · Ukraine ·
Volovets fire, 9 March 2026 Воловецький район · Volovets, Turka
Out · last detection 9 Mar 2026, 11:39 UTC
The fire started on 9 March 2026 in Volovets, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 118 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 18th largest in Zakarpattia Oblast since 2016 (of 24 with a page). Number 808 in Ukraine in 2026, of 984.
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Duration by satellite
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9 Mar 2026 to 9 Mar 2026: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 9 Mar 2026, 11:39 UTC
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Start
satellite only9 Mar 2026
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- EFFIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 9 Mar 2026
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Danger at the start
model8.6FWI · low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 11.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 9 Mar 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
model13.3°C · 27% RH
High of 13.3 °C and minimum humidity of 27% on 9 March 2026; gusts of 30 km/h on 9 March 2026.
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- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 9 Mar 2026 – 9 Mar 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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logLast day with fire: 24 March 2026 → 9 March 2026.
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· reconstructed perimeterEFFIS (Copernicus) revises the perimeter
What was saved on 5 November 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
- 118 ha
- Dates
- 9 Mar 2026 – 9 Mar 2026
- Name
- Volovets
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/volovets-2026-03-2?v=2026-11-05A 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.
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CSV for this fire volovets-2026-03-2.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-09 | 0 | 0 | 13.3 | -1.2 | 27 | 11.9 | 29.5 | 0 | 8.6 | bajo | 1 |
| 2026-03-10 | 0 | 0 | 12.5 | -0.1 | 32 | 14.7 | 43.2 | 0 | 10.9 | bajo | 0 |
| 2026-03-11 | 0 | 0 | 13.2 | -0.1 | 27 | 14.7 | 37.4 | 0 | 11.2 | moderado | 0 |
| 2026-03-12 | 0 | 0 | 13.6 | 0.5 | 34 | 12.8 | 33.5 | 0 | 11 | bajo | 0 |
| 2026-03-13 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1.7 | 40 | 10.8 | 23.8 | 0.1 | 9.7 | bajo | 0 |
| 2026-03-14 | 0 | 0 | 13.9 | 0.3 | 23 | 12.2 | 32.4 | 0 | 11.5 | moderado | 0 |
| 2026-03-15 | 0 | 0 | 14.2 | -0.2 | 24 | 13.5 | 25.9 | 0 | 9 | bajo | 0 |
| 2026-03-16 | 0 | 0 | 11.3 | -1 | 38 | 12.1 | 30.6 | 0 | 11.8 | moderado | 0 |
| 2026-03-17 | 0 | 0 | 9.8 | 0.6 | 45 | 11.6 | 30.6 | 0.6 | 9.4 | bajo | 0 |
| 2026-03-18 | 0 | 0 | 9.3 | -0.2 | 45 | 20.2 | 51.8 | 0 | 12.4 | moderado | 0 |
| 2026-03-19 | 0 | 0 | 6.2 | 1.6 | 56 | 19.1 | 47.9 | 0.2 | 9.9 | bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 118ha
- Copernicus perimeter
- Duration
- 1day
- 9 Mar 2026 – 9 Mar 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- districts
- Started on
- 9 Mar
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 0
- in a single hotspot: 0 MW
- Danger at start
- 9
- Low · FWI index
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
9 Mar9 Mar
How it evolved, day by day
9 Mar 2026 · 0 MW · 0
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
13°high
30km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity
It had gone 11 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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103 ha reached on 9 Mar0.3 %
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15 ha0.0 %
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
- Mixed forest57 %
- Agricultural areas27 %
- Broadleaved forest11 %
- Other natural land5.1 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Mar | 13.3 °C | 27 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 9 |
| 10 Mar after | 12.5 °C | 32 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 11 Mar after | 13.2 °C | 27 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 11 |
| 12 Mar after | 13.6 °C | 34 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 13 Mar after | 15.0 °C | 40 % | 24 km/h | 0.1 mm | Low 10 |
| 14 Mar after | 13.9 °C | 23 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 15 Mar after | 14.2 °C | 24 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 9 |
| 16 Mar after | 11.3 °C | 38 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 17 Mar after | 9.8 °C | 45 % | 31 km/h | 0.6 mm | Low 9 |
| 18 Mar after | 9.3 °C | 45 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 19 Mar after | 6.2 °C | 56 % | 48 km/h | 0.2 mm | Low 10 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 8.6, a minimum humidity of 27% and 11 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2018: 27.
FWI at the start
8.6
Minimum humidity
27 %
Days without rain
11
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Volovets fire, 9 March 2026
118 ha
1 day
FWI 8.6
Min. humidity 27 %
Stryi fire, March 2022
173 ha
3 days
FWI 7.0
Min. humidity 28 %
60 km away, in 2022
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.2 mm on 26 Mar.
Drohobych fire, March 2022
309 ha
4 days
FWI 6.2
Min. humidity 27 %
68 km away, in 2022
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.1 mm on 26 Mar.
Sambir fire, March 2022
122 ha
3 days
FWI 7.4
Min. humidity 28 %
94 km away, in 2022
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.1 mm on 26 Mar.
Nadvirna fire, April 2022
142 ha
1 day
FWI 9.1
Min. humidity 27 %
109 km away, in 2022
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 13.1 mm on 16 Apr.
Drohobych fire, March 2022
209 ha
4 days
FWI 7.3
Min. humidity 28 %
91 km away, in 2022
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.0 mm on 26 Mar.
What happened to them
- 3 days
- median duration
- 209 ha
- median area
- 7 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 1.2 mm
- rain at the end (median; 24 of 27 had it)
It stayed below its twins: 118 ha against a median of 209 ha. It lasted 1 day, against 3 days.
In 3 of 27, 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 1.2 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
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
30km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 9 Mar, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 24 of 27, with a median of 1.2 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 2018.
- 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 · 2 Mar 2026
After · 16 Mar 2026
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 7 March 2026 the air beside the fire reached 21 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak21 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1027 µg/m³
Optical depth0.22
WHO 15
7 Mar9 Mar11 Mar
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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 · 0Every 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
- 251 haVolovets Воловецький районApril 2020 · 7 days · 2 km away
- 246 haVolovets Воловецький район6 March 2026 · 8 days · 4 km away
- 137 haTurka Турківський район14 March 2026 · 1 day · 5 km away
- 132 haTurka Турківський район10 March 2026 · 5 days · 24 km away
- 277 haPerechyn Перечинський район17 March 2022 · 3 days · 30 km away
- 184 haSvaliava Свалявський районApril 2020 · 4 days · 32 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Volovets fire last?
- Copernicus dates it between 9 March 2026 and 9 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 118 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Volovets (103 ha, 0.3 %); Turka (15 ha, 0.0 %).
- Did the fire reach a town?
- The fire started in Volovets and came within 8.5 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 13.3 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 30 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 9, 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2018 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 27. Their median duration was 3 days and their median area 209 ha; 7 % went past 1,000 ha. In 3 of 27, 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 1.2 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: 101 · 112 · Emergency number and official warnings
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 24 March 2026 → 9 March 2026.
RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version
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How we know this
- Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No 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 (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.