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MK · North Macedonia · Southwest · 51,428 inhabitants

Wildfires in Ohrid Општина Охрид

Ohrid, North Macedonia, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 2,012 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.1% 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. Mon 9 Very low 9° · 82 % · 24 km/h
  2. Tue 10 Very low 10° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Very low 14° · 81 % · 30 km/h
  4. Thu 12 Very low 15° · 68 % · 40 km/h
  5. Fri 13 Very low 15° · 79 % · 53 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Very low 13° · 84 % · 43 km/h
  7. Sun 15 Very low 11° · 83 % · 28 km/h
  8. Mon 16 Very low 12° · 79 % · 26 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 Ohrid: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,012
hectares burned
5.1 %
of its area
6
fires
394
km²

How many times has Ohrid burned?

Ohrid has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2021, 2022 and 2024. The most recent: Ohrid fire, 6 August 2024, with 1,086 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,012 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,655 hectares, 4.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
2,012
cumulative ha
1,655
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 Ohrid

  1. 1,086 ha Ohrid fire, 6 August 2024 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,598 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 180 ha Ohrid fire, 2 August 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 179 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 133 ha Debartsa fire, July 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 1,111 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 172 ha Ohrid fire, August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 172 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 310 ha Ohrid fire, September 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 311 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 130 ha Ohrid fire, August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 130 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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