UA · Ukraine · Mykolaiv Oblast · 15,045 inhabitants

Wildfires in Ochakiv Очаківський район

Name: Ochakiv
Address: UA

Ochakiv, Ukraine, has had 18 fires with an official perimeter since 2022: 4,138 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.6% 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

Thu 29 Very low 12° · 65 % · 35 km/h
Fri 30 Very low 12° · 80 % · 32 km/h
Sat 31 Very low 12° · 67 % · 32 km/h
Sun 1 Very low 14° · 53 % · 21 km/h
Mon 2 Very low 13° · 62 % · 30 km/h
Tue 3 Very low 12° · 64 % · 43 km/h
Wed 4 Very low 11° · 55 % · 51 km/h
Thu 5 Very low 8° · 46 % · 45 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.

Since 2016

4,138
hectares burned: 5.6 %
of its area: 18
fires: 745
km²

How many times has Ochakiv burned?

Ochakiv has burned 18 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ochakiv fire, August 2026, with 329 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,138 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,271 hectares, 4.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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1× 22
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4× 24
9× 25
4× 26

18
fires: 4
years with fire: 4,138
cumulative ha: 3,271
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 Ochakiv

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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