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UA · Ukraine · Zakarpattia Oblast · 71,635 inhabitants

Wildfires in Uzhhorod Ужгородський район

Uzhhorod, Ukraine, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2022: 1,144 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Very low 12° · 55 % · 36 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 10° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 10° · 46 % · 15 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 9° · 61 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 9° · 45 % · 15 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 9° · 47 % · 17 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 8° · 47 % · 20 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 8° · 68 % · 36 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

1,144
hectares burned
1.1 %
of its area
4
fires
1,042
km²

How many times has Uzhhorod burned?

Uzhhorod has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Uzhhorod fire, March 2026, with 114 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,144 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,060 hectares, 1.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
1,144
cumulative ha
1,060
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 Uzhhorod

  1. 114 ha Uzhhorod fire, March 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 114 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 185 ha Uzhhorod fire, September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 185 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 118 ha Uzhhorod fire, 22 March 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 118 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 728 ha Uzhhorod fire, 22 March 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 728 ha in total · 7 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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