UA · Ukraine · Kherson Oblast · 59,491 inhabitants

Wildfires in Henichesk Генічеський район

Name: Henichesk
Address: UA

Henichesk, Ukraine, has had 15 fires with an official perimeter since 2023: 2,512 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter; one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast

Tue 10 Very low 8° · 60 % · 18 km/h
Wed 11 Very low 10° · 84 % · 44 km/h
Thu 12 Very low 14° · 81 % · 41 km/h
Fri 13 Very low 19° · 72 % · 56 km/h
Sat 14 Very low 15° · 54 % · 55 km/h
Sun 15 Very low 8° · 49 % · 53 km/h
Mon 16 Very low 8° · 67 % · 45 km/h
Tue 17 Very low 12° · 85 % · 53 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 Henichesk: hourly forecast

Since 2016

2,512
hectares burned: 1.6 %
of its area: 15
fires: 1,591
km²

How many times has Henichesk burned?

Henichesk has burned 15 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Henichesk fire, 26 August 2026, with 124 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,512 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,788 hectares, 1.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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15
fires: 4
years with fire: 2,512
cumulative ha: 1,788
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 Ukraine

Fires that entered Henichesk

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). 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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