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UA · Ukraine · Zaporizhzhia Oblast · 48,698 inhabitants

Wildfires in Melitopol Мелітопольський район

Melitopol, Ukraine, has had 13 fires with an official perimeter since 2024: 2,459 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.7% 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. Fri 23 Very low 19° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 19° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 16° · 63 % · 45 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 16° · 60 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 16° · 61 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 15° · 62 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 51 % · 38 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 73 % · 40 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

2,459
hectares burned
1.7 %
of its area
13
fires
1,441
km²

How many times has Melitopol burned?

Melitopol has burned 13 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Melitopol fire, 15 August 2026, with 102 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,459 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,348 hectares, 1.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 9× 26
13
fires
3
years with fire
2,459
cumulative ha
2,348
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 Melitopol

  1. 102 ha Melitopol fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 102 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 135 ha Melitopol fire, 9 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 134 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 232 ha Melitopol fire, 8 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 231 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 185 ha Melitopol fire, 2 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 185 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 119 ha Melitopol fire, 21 July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 119 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 112 ha Melitopol fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 112 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 133 ha Melitopol fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 133 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 112 ha Melitopol fire, 30 June 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 113 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 196 ha Melitopol fire, 21 June 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 196 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 596 ha Melitopol fire, February 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 720 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 183 ha Melitopol fire, 26 August 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 184 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 230 ha Melitopol fire, 19 August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 231 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 124 ha Melitopol fire, July 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 125 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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