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Wildfires in Shtip Општина Штип

Shtip, North Macedonia, has had 11 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 5,635 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 28 Very low 15° · 56 % · 43 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 15° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 15° · 62 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 13° · 78 % · 17 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 13° · 83 % · 26 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 12° · 92 % · 56 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 14° · 76 % · 31 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 13° · 60 % · 44 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

5,635
hectares burned
9.7 %
of its area
11
fires
583
km²

How many times has Shtip burned?

Shtip has burned 11 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Shtip fire, August 2026, with 394 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
11
fires
7
years with fire
5,635
cumulative ha
31 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 Shtip

  1. 394 ha Shtip fire, August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 394 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 140 ha Shtip fire, July 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 140 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 277 ha Shtip fire, August 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 276 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 415 ha Karbintsi fire, July 2024 0.7% of the municipality · 2,674 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 157 ha Shtip fire, July 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 157 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 2,767 ha Negotino fire, 14 July 2024 4.7% of the municipality · 13,335 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 275 ha Negotino fire, 10 July 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 5,879 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 519 ha Shtip fire, October 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 550 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 590 ha Sveti Nikole fire, August 2021 1.0% of the municipality · 1,385 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 9 ha Negotino fire, October 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 391 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 92 ha Karbintsi fire, August 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 543 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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