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UA · Ukraine · Chernihiv Oblast · 66,981 inhabitants

Wildfires in Nizhyn Ніжин

Nizhyn, Ukraine, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2022: 909 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.7% 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. Mon 2 Very low 10° · 80 % · 14 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 10° · 79 % · 26 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 7° · 61 % · 40 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 6° · 56 % · 33 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 6° · 59 % · 40 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 4° · 47 % · 41 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 6° · 71 % · 37 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 6° · 59 % · 25 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

909
hectares burned
0.7 %
of its area
3
fires
1,307
km²

How many times has Nizhyn burned?

Nizhyn has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Nosivka fire, April 2025, with 204 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
909
cumulative ha
13 Apr 2025
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 Nizhyn

  1. 204 ha Nosivka fire, April 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 372 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 284 ha Nizhyn fire, 17 March 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 285 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 420 ha Nizhyn fire, 17 March 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 422 ha in total · 4 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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