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Wildfires in Grad Benkovac

Grad Benkovac, Croatia, has had 8 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 6,858 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 10 Very low 15° · 77 % · 43 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 17° · 92 % · 26 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 17° · 93 % · 60 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 18° · 69 % · 64 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 11° · 45 % · 59 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 14° · 62 % · 48 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 18° · 75 % · 34 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 16° · 71 % · 30 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Grad Benkovac: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

6,858
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
8
fires
654
km²

How many times has Grad Benkovac burned?

Grad Benkovac has burned 8 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2024. The most recent: Grad Benkovac fire, August 2024, with 107 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 7× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
2
years with fire
6,858
cumulative ha
1 Aug 2024
most recent

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Croatia

Fires that entered Grad Benkovac

  1. 107 ha Grad Benkovac fire, August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 108 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 201 ha Općina Kistanje fire, 23 August 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 1,510 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 179 ha Općina Kistanje fire, 22 August 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 851 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 259 ha Općina Pakoštane fire, August 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 824 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 159 ha Grad Benkovac fire, 21 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 159 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 3,874 ha Grad Benkovac fire, 20 August 2017 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 3,876 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,161 ha Općina Pakoštane fire, July 2017 1.8% of the municipality · 2,041 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 917 ha Grad Benkovac fire, July 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,306 ha in total · 4 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Open Street Map, geoBoundaries (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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