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UA · Ukraine · Cherkasy Oblast · 23,503 inhabitants

Wildfires in Kaniv Канів

Kaniv, Ukraine, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2025: 1,044 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.6% 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. Sun 25 Very low 14° · 70 % · 35 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 14° · 66 % · 37 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 14° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 12° · 49 % · 24 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 13° · 45 % · 30 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 55 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 11° · 63 % · 24 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 10° · 65 % · 31 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

1,044
hectares burned
0.6 %
of its area
5
fires
1,667
km²

How many times has Kaniv burned?

Kaniv has burned 5 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kaniv fire, August 2026, with 389 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,044 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 970 hectares, 0.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
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  4.   19
  5.   20
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  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 2× 26
5
fires
2
years with fire
1,044
cumulative ha
970
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 Kaniv

  1. 389 ha Kaniv fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 390 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 148 ha Kaniv fire, April 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 148 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 180 ha Kaniv fire, March 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 180 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 178 ha Kaniv fire, 25 February 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 179 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 149 ha Kaniv fire, 23 February 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 150 ha in total · 1 day

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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