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MK · North Macedonia · Pelagonia · 85,164 inhabitants

Wildfires in Bitola Општина Битола

Bitola, North Macedonia, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 785 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.0% 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. Wed 11 Very low 15° · 71 % · 35 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 15° · 65 % · 62 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 15° · 72 % · 70 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 13° · 65 % · 46 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 12° · 68 % · 24 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 13° · 66 % · 48 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 12° · 94 % · 59 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 12° · 58 % · 62 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 Bitola: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

785
hectares burned
1.0 %
of its area
3
fires
790
km²

How many times has Bitola burned?

Bitola has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Bitola fire, August 2026, with 238 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
785
cumulative ha
2 Aug 2026
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 North Macedonia

Fires that entered Bitola

  1. 238 ha Bitola fire, August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 241 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 158 ha Bitola fire, April 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 158 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 389 ha Bitola fire, September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 568 ha in total · 3 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/EuroGeographics, Regional IM Working Group - Europe (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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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