Fire atlas
Fires in Croatia
Satellite-detected fires in Croatia right now, plus five years of NASA FIRMS archive: 7,861 detections, 2,758 distinct fires, season and worst years by region.
Fires burning now in Croatia
Reading the latest satellite pass…
Window: last 24 hours, NASA FIRMS
See it on the mapFive years of archive
2020 to 2026 · through 2026-07-31
The years up to 2024 come from NASA’s finalized yearly archives. What follows, through 2026-07-31, comes from its near-real-time interface: 2026 is therefore a partial year, and its most recent weeks have not yet received the classification that removes volcanoes, flares and industrial sources. A very recent fire counts here, with a little more noise around it.
- Satellite detections
- 7,861
- Distinct fires
- 2,758
- Busiest month
- March
- Worst year
- 2022
- Strongest signal
- 721 MW
- Seen at night
- 26.2%
- Detections per 1,000 km²
- 139.6
Detections per year
| Year | Detections |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 2,000 |
| 2021 | 1,086 |
| 2022 | 2,416 |
| 2023 | 375 |
| 2024 | 975 |
| 2025 | 502 |
| 2026 | 507 |
The season
Share of detections by month, over the five years together.
| Month | Detections |
|---|---|
| Jan | 198 |
| Feb | 716 |
| Mar | 2,722 |
| Apr | 1,592 |
| May | 184 |
| Jun | 220 |
| Jul | 674 |
| Aug | 901 |
| Sep | 252 |
| Oct | 308 |
| Nov | 56 |
| Dec | 38 |
The most affected areas
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| Adriatic Croatia | 5,323 |
| Pannonian Croatia | 2,102 |
| Northern Croatia | 400 |
The season is not the same everywhere
Each row is scaled to its own peak, so the comparison is between calendars rather than volumes. A row lighting up in summer is a forest-fire regime; a row lighting up in late winter signals agricultural burning.
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| Adriatic Croatia | Jan: 193 · Feb: 463 · Mar: 1,584 · Apr: 1,244 · May: 103 · Jun: 143 · Jul: 557 · Aug: 781 · Sep: 113 · Oct: 63 · Nov: 45 · Dec: 34 |
| Pannonian Croatia | Jan: 3 · Feb: 207 · Mar: 979 · Apr: 287 · May: 65 · Jun: 56 · Jul: 92 · Aug: 94 · Sep: 97 · Oct: 212 · Nov: 8 · Dec: 2 |
| Northern Croatia | Jan: 2 · Feb: 42 · Mar: 139 · Apr: 59 · May: 15 · Jun: 18 · Jul: 24 · Aug: 25 · Sep: 40 · Oct: 31 · Nov: 3 · Dec: 2 |
Regions
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| Adriatic Croatia | 5,323 |
| Pannonian Croatia | 2,102 |
| Northern Croatia | 400 |
Without a page of their own
These areas stay below the publication floor: too few detections, or too few distinct fires over five years, for a page to say anything beyond this number.
| Area | Detections |
|---|---|
| Grad Zagreb | 36 |
The largest recorded fires
The largest fires recorded here over five years — when each was first seen from orbit, and where.
289 detections · 12.6 km across · 55 MW
226 detections · 14 km across · 117 MW
216 detections · 13.7 km across · 68 MW
145 detections · 9.6 km across · 601 MW
127 detections · 10.7 km across · 77 MW
A first detection is not an ignition. A polar satellite passes only a few times a day, so a fire is seen on the next overpass — sometimes hours after it started, in a pixel about 375 m across. The point given is where it was first seen, not where it began. The span is the straight-line distance between detections: a floor on how far the fire reached, never a burned area. The named municipality is the one nearest the centre of the detections.
Aerial response in Croatia
10 verified aircraft in the catalog, tracked over ADS-B when they transmit.
See the Croatia registerThe questions people ask
- Where are the wildfires in Croatia today?
- The region table below shows, for each of them, the satellite detections from the last 24 hours. Open a region to go down to the province, or go straight to the map, which shows every detection point with its time and its power.
- Which regions of Croatia burn the most?
- The ranking below answers directly: regions are sorted by satellite detections over five years, most affected first. Each row leads to a page detailing its season, its worst years and its largest fires.
- When is the fire season in Croatia?
- Over five years, March is the month with the most detections in Croatia. But a national average hides opposite regimes: the Mediterranean coast burns in summer, while some inland regions peak in late winter because of agricultural burning.
- Can this map replace an official alert?
- No. Fire Maps shows observations and models, with their timestamps and their limits; it replaces neither the authorities, nor official alerts, nor incident command. In immediate danger, call the emergency services and follow official instructions.
How to read this page
A detection is not a fire. It is a pixel the satellite saw radiating like fire. One fire lights several pixels and comes back on every overpass: the unit counted here is evidence of heat, not the incident. That is why the page also gives a count of distinct fires, obtained by chaining detections that are close in space and in time.
The archive has gaps, and they are not random. A polar satellite passes a few times a day; under cloud it sees nothing; a fire smaller than the pixel can go unnoticed; a fire smouldering under canopy radiates little. An area with no detection is an area where nothing was seen — which is not the same as an area where nothing burned.
Two filters were applied, and this is what they removed. First NASA's own classification: 297 rows flagged as volcano, fixed ground source or offshore flare were discarded. Then persistence: 10 cells of about 500 metres lit in six different months across at least three distinct years behave like an industrial installation rather than a season; their 145 detections were removed.
Not everything that burns is a wildfire. Stubble burning, pastoral burning and the disposal of agricultural residue all produce perfectly real detections, often outside the summer season. A February or March peak on this page is almost always that.
The administrative outlines are generalized to a few hundred metres. A detection falling right on a boundary may therefore be counted on the neighbouring side. For a count of hot pixels the difference is immaterial; for a question of jurisdiction, use the official source.
Data sources
Archive built on July 31, 2026, covering 2020 to 2026.