🇺🇦 Ukraine: wildfires in September 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, September 2026: 130 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 18 October at 07:25.
Busiest day: 9 September, with 15 ignitions detected. -55% compared with August 2026.
"In September 2026, kanari archived 130 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: 612 MW."
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nove | 17 Sept, 02:40 | 89 | 612 |
| Dniprorudne | 7 Sept, 21:00 | 26 | 417 |
| Ahaymany | 14 Sept, 14:40 | 11 | 373 |
| Mardarivka | 7 Sept, 08:00 | 7 | 242 |
| Maryanivka | 2 Sept, 09:28 | 10 | 234 |
| Zaporizhzhya | 9 Sept, 08:00 | 8 | 233 |
| Riga Quarter | 3 Sept, 04:10 | 13 | 222 |
| Starobesheve | 4 Sept, 13:20 | 15 | 214 |
| Prolisne | 10 Sept, 08:28 | 40 | 202 |
| Shulhynka | 10 Sept, 12:48 | 5 | 197 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Ukraine, September 2026: 130 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-18.
Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.
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