UA · Ukraine · Donetsk Oblast · 18,952 inhabitants

Wildfires in Shakhtarsk Шахтарський район

Name: Shakhtarsk
Address: UA

Shakhtarsk, Ukraine, has had 129 fires with an official perimeter since 2022: 34,976 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 provisional page, 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

Wed 4 Low 11° · 67 % · 42 km/h
Thu 5 Low 5° · 51 % · 44 km/h
Fri 6 Low 7° · 75 % · 39 km/h
Sat 7 Very low 4° · 58 % · 38 km/h
Sun 8 Very low 3° · 43 % · 23 km/h
Mon 9 Very low 4° · 66 % · 31 km/h
Tue 10 Very low 6° · 56 % · 23 km/h
Wed 11 Low 6° · 48 % · 55 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Shakhtarsk: hourly forecast

Since 2016

34,976
hectares burned: 15 %
of its area: 129
fires: 2,281
km²

How many times has Shakhtarsk burned?

Shakhtarsk has burned 129 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Shakhtarsk fire, 9 September 2026, with 186 hectares inside the municipality.

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129
fires: 5
years with fire: 34,976
cumulative ha: 9 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 Shakhtarsk

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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