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Wildfires in Ilinden Општина Илинден

Ilinden, North Macedonia, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 1,049 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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. Sat 14 Very low 14° · 61 % · 17 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 11° · 71 % · 17 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 11° · 89 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 14° · 68 % · 18 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 19° · 54 % · 31 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 17° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 18° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 15° · 55 % · 22 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 Ilinden: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,049
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
3
fires
97
km²

How many times has Ilinden burned?

Ilinden has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2021, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Ilinden fire, July 2025, with 257 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,049 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 965 hectares, 10.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,049
cumulative ha
965
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 Ilinden

  1. 257 ha Ilinden fire, July 2025 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 257 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 651 ha Ilinden fire, August 2023 where it started 6.7% of the municipality · 734 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 141 ha Ilinden fire, September 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 140 ha in total · 4 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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