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UA · Ukraine · Zhytomyr Oblast · 41,423 inhabitants

Wildfires in Olevsk Олевський район

Olevsk, Ukraine, has had 38 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 22,373 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% 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 8° · 86 % · 21 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 7° · 76 % · 25 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 7° · 54 % · 35 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 7° · 69 % · 40 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 7° · 60 % · 44 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 5° · 51 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 6° · 68 % · 33 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 6° · 53 % · 21 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

22,373
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
38
fires
2,135
km²

How many times has Olevsk burned?

Olevsk has burned 38 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Olevsk fire, 6 May 2026, with 142 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 22,373 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 21,551 hectares, 10 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 22× 20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 9× 25
  11. 2× 26
38
fires
5
years with fire
22,373
cumulative ha
21,551
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 Olevsk

  1. 142 ha Olevsk fire, 6 May 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 143 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 2,429 ha Olevsk fire, 6 May 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,424 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 442 ha Olevsk fire, May 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 443 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 234 ha Olevsk fire, April 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 235 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 549 ha Olevsk fire, 20 March 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 552 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 128 ha Olevsk fire, 9 March 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 129 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 403 ha Olevsk fire, 9 March 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 405 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 126 ha Olevsk fire, 7 March 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 127 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 692 ha Olevsk fire, 6 March 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 695 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 109 ha Olevsk fire, 6 March 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 109 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 179 ha Olevsk fire, 6 March 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 179 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 385 ha Olevsk fire, September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 385 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 107 ha Olevsk fire, March 2024 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 132 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 154 ha Olevsk fire, 15 March 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 155 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 106 ha Olevsk fire, 14 March 2022 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 107 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 110 ha Olevsk fire, 14 March 2022 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 110 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 167 ha Olevsk fire, 28 April 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 168 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 3,036 ha Olevsk fire, 18 April 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,038 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 156 ha Olevsk fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 183 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 647 ha Olevsk fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 650 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 208 ha Olevsk fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 209 ha in total · 9 days
  22. 244 ha Olevsk fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 245 ha in total · 11 days
  23. 1,664 ha Olevsk fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,671 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 198 ha Olevsk fire, 13 April 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 199 ha in total · 1 day
  25. 5,407 ha Olevsk fire, 10 April 2020 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 5,416 ha in total · 13 days
  26. 123 ha Olevsk fire, 9 April 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 123 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 54 ha Yemilchyne fire, 7 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 161 ha in total · 1 day
  28. 102 ha Olevsk fire, 7 April 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 120 ha in total · 7 days
  29. 425 ha Olevsk fire, 6 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 427 ha in total · 7 days
  30. 105 ha Olevsk fire, 5 April 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 106 ha in total · 1 day
  31. 40 ha Luhyny fire, 5 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 208 ha in total · 4 days
  32. 10 ha Yemilchyne fire, 4 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 385 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 1,059 ha Olevsk fire, 4 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,572 ha in total · 7 days
  34. 4 ha Luhyny fire, 4 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 299 ha in total · 6 days
  35. 204 ha Olevsk fire, 3 April 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 205 ha in total · 5 days
  36. 428 ha Olevsk fire, 3 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 430 ha in total · 12 days
  37. 364 ha Olevsk fire, 3 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 365 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 1,432 ha Olevsk fire, 2 April 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,853 ha in total · 13 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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