UA · Ukraine · Kherson Oblast · 70,367 inhabitants

Wildfires in Oleshky Олешківський район

Name: Oleshky
Address: UA

Oleshky, Ukraine, has had 319 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 102,732 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 54% 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); 3 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter; 2 pages with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast

Wed 11 Very low 12° · 76 % · 46 km/h
Thu 12 Very low 13° · 73 % · 30 km/h
Fri 13 Very low 19° · 71 % · 55 km/h
Sat 14 Very low 16° · 59 % · 39 km/h
Sun 15 Very low 8° · 48 % · 18 km/h
Mon 16 Very low 10° · 50 % · 31 km/h
Tue 17 Very low 12° · 63 % · 35 km/h
Wed 18 Very low 16° · 63 % · 49 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Oleshky: hourly forecast

Since 2016

102,732
hectares burned: 54 %
of its area: 319
fires: 1,919
km²

How many times has Oleshky burned?

Oleshky has burned 319 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Oleshky fire, 19 September 2026, with 258 hectares inside the municipality.

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93× 24
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319
fires: 5
years with fire: 102,732
cumulative ha: 19 Sept 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 Oleshky

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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