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🇺🇦 Ukraine: wildfires in October 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, October 2026: 78 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 15 November at 06:03.

Busiest day: 11 October, with 14 ignitions detected. -40% compared with September 2026.

78
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
409
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 78 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: 409 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

Fire ignitions per day

012026-10-01: 2022026-10-02: 3032026-10-03: 3042026-10-04: 1052026-10-05: 6062026-10-06: 2072026-10-07: 2082026-10-08: 6092026-10-09: 7102026-10-10: 2112026-10-11: 14122026-10-12: 6162026-10-16: 3182026-10-18: 1192026-10-19: 1242026-10-24: 4252026-10-25: 1262026-10-26: 4282026-10-28: 2292026-10-29: 3302026-10-30: 5

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Svatove12 Oct, 08:0836409
Rubanivka11 Oct, 10:0814247
Dzhulynka10 Oct, 10:2025216
Ocheretyne7 Oct, 08:5826210
Mykolaivka12 Oct, 14:5817186
Kripenskyi26 Oct, 21:5686183
Velykomykhailivka11 Oct, 13:3813173
Aidar-Mykolaivka30 Oct, 13:2819171
Nyzhnia Duvanka24 Oct, 11:4028157
Boykivske25 Oct, 13:5837157

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Ukraine, October 2026: 78 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-11-15.

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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