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UA · Ukraine · Zhytomyr Oblast · 55,608 inhabitants

Wildfires in Ovruch Овруцький район

Ovruch, Ukraine, has had 17 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 40,507 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% 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). They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Very low 15° · 63 % · 36 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 13° · 68 % · 20 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 8° · 60 % · 17 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 11° · 55 % · 14 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 59 % · 20 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 10° · 71 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 7° · 86 % · 27 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 8° · 58 % · 20 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

40,507
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
17
fires
2,471
km²

How many times has Ovruch burned?

Ovruch has burned 17 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Ovruch fire, April 2025, with 248 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 9× 20
  6.   21
  7. 5× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
17
fires
4
years with fire
40,507
cumulative ha
22 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 Ovruch

  1. 248 ha Ovruch fire, April 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 248 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 100 ha Ovruch fire, May 2024 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 100 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 25 ha Olevsk fire, March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 132 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 187 ha Ovruch fire, 23 March 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 187 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 396 ha Ovruch fire, 20 March 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 402 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 154 ha Ovruch fire, 19 March 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 155 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 515 ha Ovruch fire, 19 March 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 526 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 221 ha Ovruch fire, 19 March 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 222 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 111 ha Ovruch fire, 29 April 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 111 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 158 ha Ovruch fire, 29 April 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,284 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 26,632 ha Ovruch fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 11% of the municipality · 27,244 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 8,396 ha Ovruch fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 8,406 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 723 ha Ovruch fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 725 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 839 ha Ovruch fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 841 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 1,083 ha Ovruch fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,082 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 253 ha Narodychi fire, 3 April 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 45,987 ha in total · 18 days
  17. 197 ha Ovruch fire, 29 March 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 198 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 467 ha Ovruch fire, 28 March 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 469 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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