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Wildfires in Debar Општина Дебар

Debar, North Macedonia, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 716 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 45 % · 14 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 14° · 61 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 12° · 67 % · 16 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 12° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 13° · 54 % · 34 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 10° · 77 % · 19 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 11° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 12° · 51 % · 25 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

716
hectares burned
4.8 %
of its area
4
fires
150
km²

How many times has Debar burned?

Debar has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Debar fire, October 2026, with 223 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 716 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 646 hectares, 4.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
716
cumulative ha
646
distinct ha

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 Debar

  1. 223 ha Debar fire, October 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 223 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 229 ha Debar fire, August 2024 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 229 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 134 ha Debar fire, April 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 134 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 129 ha Debar fire, August 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 167 ha in total · 2 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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