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UA · Ukraine · Volyn Oblast · 40,337 inhabitants

Wildfires in Kovel Ковельський район

Kovel, Ukraine, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 1,715 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.9% 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. Fri 23 Very low 13° · 57 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 12° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 14° · 76 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 11° · 74 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 12° · 62 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 14° · 69 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 13° · 72 % · 38 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 8° · 89 % · 30 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

1,715
hectares burned
0.9 %
of its area
6
fires
1,822
km²

How many times has Kovel burned?

Kovel has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kovel fire, June 2026, with 119 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
4
years with fire
1,715
cumulative ha
28 Jun 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 Ukraine →

Fires that entered Kovel

  1. 119 ha Kovel fire, June 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 119 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 200 ha Kovel fire, March 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 200 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 113 ha Kovel fire, February 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 114 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 109 ha Kovel fire, 12 May 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 109 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 179 ha Kovel fire, 1 May 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 179 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 994 ha Kovel fire, April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,121 ha in total · 8 days

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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