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UA · Ukraine · Zhytomyr Oblast · 26,183 inhabitants

Wildfires in Korosten Коростенський район

Korosten, Ukraine, has had 14 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 4,640 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.8% 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.

These figures leave out one burn that was probably not a wildfire (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 29 Very low 8° · 79 % · 16 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 11° · 68 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 9° · 78 % · 29 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 6° · 87 % · 23 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 8° · 75 % · 22 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 8° · 64 % · 29 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 7° · 58 % · 48 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 4° · 60 % · 41 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

4,640
hectares burned
3.8 %
of its area
14
fires
1,236
km²

How many times has Korosten burned?

Korosten has burned 14 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Korosten fire, 21 April 2025, with 103 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,640 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,045 hectares, 3.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 7× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 6× 25
  11.   26
14
fires
3
years with fire
4,640
cumulative ha
4,045
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 Korosten

  1. 103 ha Korosten fire, 21 April 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 575 ha Korosten fire, 18 April 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 576 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 403 ha Korosten fire, 18 April 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 403 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 94 ha Korosten fire, 18 April 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 518 ha Yemilchyne fire, 6 March 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 1,617 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 645 ha Luhyny fire, February 2025 0.5% of the municipality · 765 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 136 ha Korosten fire, September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 137 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,069 ha Korosten fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 332 ha Korosten fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 332 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 315 ha Korosten fire, 8 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 315 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1 ha Narodychi fire, 3 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 45,987 ha in total · 18 days
  12. 172 ha Korosten fire, 2 April 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 173 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 157 ha Korosten fire, March 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 157 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 130 ha Yemilchyne fire, 24 March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,629 ha in total · 17 days
  15. 147 ha Luhyny fire, 20 March 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 149 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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