🇺🇦 Ukraine: wildfires in August 2026

Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.

Ukraine, August 2026: 290 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 6 October at 04:03.

Busiest day: 9 August, with 24 ignitions detected.

"In August 2026, kanari archived 290 detection events in Ukraine, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 770 MW."