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Wildfires in Orzhytsia Оржицький район

Name: Orzhytsia
Address: UA

Orzhytsia, Ukraine, has had 14 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 3,551 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.5% 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.

These figures leave out one burn that was probably not a wildfire (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast

Mon 26 Very low 12° · 56 % · 36 km/h
Tue 27 Very low 14° · 46 % · 32 km/h
Wed 28 Very low 12° · 48 % · 27 km/h
Thu 29 Very low 13° · 43 % · 32 km/h
Fri 30 Very low 12° · 44 % · 26 km/h
Sat 31 Very low 12° · 54 % · 24 km/h
Sun 1 Very low 11° · 54 % · 36 km/h
Mon 2 Very low 9° · 62 % · 32 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

3,551
hectares burned: 3.5 %
of its area: 14
fires: 1,021
km²

How many times has Orzhytsia burned?

Orzhytsia has burned 14 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Chornobai fire, March 2026, with 8 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,551 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,358 hectares, 2.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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4× 22
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14
fires: 5
years with fire: 3,551
cumulative ha: 2,358
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.

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Fires that entered Orzhytsia

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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