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Wildfires in Sambir Самбірський район

Name: Sambir
Address: UA

Sambir, Ukraine, has had 21 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 4,108 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.0% 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 2 burns that were probably not wildfires (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

Thu 29 Very low 10° · 84 % · 18 km/h
Fri 30 Very low 10° · 77 % · 30 km/h
Sat 31 Very low 9° · 80 % · 26 km/h
Sun 1 Very low 9° · 63 % · 22 km/h
Mon 2 Very low 7° · 66 % · 25 km/h
Tue 3 Very low 7° · 67 % · 28 km/h
Wed 4 Very low 8° · 69 % · 43 km/h
Thu 5 Very low 5° · 56 % · 37 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

4,108
hectares burned: 4.0 %
of its area: 21
fires: 1,037
km²

How many times has Sambir burned?

Sambir has burned 21 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sambir fire, 14 March 2026, with 808 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,108 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,621 hectares, 3.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

16
17
18
19
1× 20
21
8× 22
23
6× 24
3× 25
3× 26

21
fires: 5
years with fire: 4,108
cumulative ha: 3,621
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 Sambir

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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