UA · Ukraine · Luhansk Oblast · 40,204 inhabitants

Wildfires in Popasna Попаснянський район

Name: Popasna
Address: UA

Popasna, Ukraine, has had 208 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 71,039 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 37% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast

Fri 30 Low 15° · 39 % · 47 km/h
Sat 31 Very low 12° · 47 % · 40 km/h
Sun 1 Very low 15° · 61 % · 29 km/h
Mon 2 Very low 15° · 64 % · 18 km/h
Tue 3 Very low 14° · 66 % · 21 km/h
Wed 4 Very low 11° · 58 % · 34 km/h
Thu 5 Very low 3° · 56 % · 48 km/h
Fri 6 Very low 6° · 66 % · 50 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

71,039
hectares burned: 37 %
of its area: 208
fires: 1,900
km²

How many times has Popasna burned?

Popasna has burned 208 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Popasna fire, 19 September 2026, with 152 hectares inside the municipality.

16
17
18
19
4× 20
21
25× 22
16× 23
84× 24
42× 25
37× 26

208
fires: 6
years with fire: 71,039
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 Popasna

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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