Wildfires in Vovchansk Вовчанський район

Name: Vovchansk
Address: UA

Vovchansk, Ukraine, has had 48 fires with an official perimeter since 2022: 11,100 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.2% 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 provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter; one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast

Sat 14 Very low 13° · 63 % · 49 km/h
Sun 15 Very low 5° · 59 % · 31 km/h
Mon 16 Very low 5° · 55 % · 29 km/h
Tue 17 Very low 4° · 63 % · 34 km/h
Wed 18 Very low 10° · 90 % · 43 km/h
Thu 19 Very low 11° · 78 % · 57 km/h
Fri 20 Very low 10° · 73 % · 63 km/h
Sat 21 Very low 9° · 77 % · 40 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 Vovchansk: hourly forecast

Since 2016

11,100
hectares burned: 8.2 %
of its area: 48
fires: 1,353
km²

How many times has Vovchansk burned?

Vovchansk has burned 48 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Vovchansk fire, 1 September 2026, with 209 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 11,100 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,541 hectares, 7.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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48
fires: 5
years with fire: 11,100
cumulative ha: 10,541
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 Vovchansk

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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