Burned area rate across Europe, 2026 YTD
Hectares burned per 1,000 km² of land area, so countries of very different sizes can be compared. Select a country to focus the rest of the dashboard on it.
Montenegro2026YTD
2026 covers only part of the year so far. Comparisons against 2025 and against the historical average are not like for like — both compare a part year with full ones.
Burned area
13,564 ha
-51.0%vs 2025 (full year)
Number of fires
95 fires
-28.6%vs 2025 (full year)
Burned area / fire
143 ha
Average size of a mapped fire
vs historical average
-17.0%
Part year against an average of full years (16,350 ha)
Rank in Europe
12th of 34
By burned area in the selected year
Share of European total
1.2%
Of all burned area in the dataset this year
Records
Extremes across Montenegro's complete years.
- Worst year by burned area2017
- 51,531 ha
- Most fires mapped2020
- 249 fires
- Lowest burned area2006
- 0 ha
- Average per complete year
- 16,350 ha
Complete years only (2006–2025).
Ranking — 2026 YTD
Countries ordered by burned area rate.
Burned area rate by country in 2026 YTD. Highest is Montenegro at 1,008 ha. 34 countries have a value.
This year is still in progress, so the ranking reflects part of the year only.
Montenegro year by year
Burned area and fire counts for every year in the dataset.
Montenegro long-run trend
Yearly values smoothed with a five-year moving average and a fitted straight line.
Montenegro trend projection
A straight line fitted to recent complete years and extended forward.
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Data table
Every value behind the visualisations, sortable and scoped to the current selection.
21 rows
| Montenegro | 2026YTD | 13,564 ha | 1,008 ha | 95 | 7.06 fires | 143 ha | -51.0% | -17.0% |
| Montenegro | 2025 | 27,658 ha | 2,056 ha | 133 | 9.89 fires | 208 ha | +20.0% | +75.5% |
| Montenegro | 2024 | 23,054 ha | 1,714 ha | 133 | 9.89 fires | 173 ha | +4,978.0% | +44.1% |
| Montenegro | 2023 | 454 ha | 34 ha | 7 | 0.52 fires | 65 ha | -98.2% | -97.4% |
| Montenegro | 2022 | 24,579 ha | 1,827 ha | 130 | 9.67 fires | 189 ha | -41.7% | +54.4% |
| Montenegro | 2021 | 42,187 ha | 3,137 ha | 112 | 8.33 fires | 377 ha | +6.8% | +181.4% |
| Montenegro | 2020 | 39,498 ha | 2,937 ha | 249 | 18.5 fires | 159 ha | +272.5% | +161.0% |
| Montenegro | 2019 | 10,603 ha | 788 ha | 65 | 4.83 fires | 163 ha | +144.8% | -36.3% |
| Montenegro | 2018 | 4,331 ha | 322 ha | 20 | 1.49 fires | 217 ha | -91.6% | -74.5% |
| Montenegro | 2017 | 51,531 ha | 3,831 ha | 121 | 9.00 fires | 426 ha | +528.8% | +255.4% |
| Montenegro | 2016 | 8,195 ha | 609 ha | 24 | 1.78 fires | 341 ha | -39.4% | -51.2% |
| Montenegro | 2015 | 13,534 ha | 1,006 ha | 44 | 3.27 fires | 308 ha | N/A | -18.0% |
| Montenegro | 2014 | 0 ha | 0.0 ha | 0 | 0.00 fires | N/A | -100.0% | -100.0% |
| Montenegro | 2013 | 1,623 ha | 121 ha | 8 | 0.59 fires | 203 ha | -95.6% | -90.5% |
| Montenegro | 2012 | 36,795 ha | 2,736 ha | 88 | 6.54 fires | 418 ha | +127.4% | +140.9% |
| Montenegro | 2011 | 16,180 ha | 1,203 ha | 44 | 3.27 fires | 368 ha | +674.9% | -1.1% |
| Montenegro | 2010 | 2,088 ha | 155 ha | 14 | 1.04 fires | 149 ha | +1,927.2% | -87.8% |
| Montenegro | 2009 | 103 ha | 7.7 ha | 1 | 0.07 fires | 103 ha | -98.2% | -99.4% |
| Montenegro | 2008 | 5,772 ha | 429 ha | 22 | 1.64 fires | 262 ha | -69.3% | -65.9% |
| Montenegro | 2007 | 18,820 ha | 1,399 ha | 30 | 2.23 fires | 627 ha | N/A | +16.0% |
| Montenegro | 2006 | 0 ha | 0.0 ha | 0 | 0.00 fires | N/A | N/A | -100.0% |
About the data
Where the numbers come from
EFFIS is the European Forest Fire Information System, part of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service. It maps burned areas across Europe from satellite imagery and publishes country-level statistics from them.
This application uses EFFIS statistics that were downloaded once and are stored locally as CSV files. Nothing is fetched from EFFIS while you use the page, so the figures reflect the snapshot taken on 25 August 2026 and will not match the live EFFIS portal once EFFIS updates.
The dataset covers 34 countries from 2006 to 2026. Two quantities are reported per country and year: the total burned area in hectares, and the number of individual fires mapped.
forest-fire.emergency.copernicus.eu(opens in a new tab)
Land area, for the rates
The two rate metrics — burned area and fire count per 1,000 km² — divide by each country's land area. Without that, a choropleth mostly shows which countries are large: Ukraine, Spain and Türkiye lead on absolute burned area largely because of their size, while Portugal, Montenegro and Albania carry far more fire per unit of land.
Land areas come from the World Bank's Land area (sq. km) indicator(opens in a new tab), originally compiled by FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and are used under CC BY-4.0. The indicator measures a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. Inland water is excluded, which matters for countries such as Finland and Sweden.
One fixed area per country is used, taken from 2023. The World Bank notes that year-to-year movement in this indicator is usually a data revision rather than a real change in area.
How to read them
- EFFIS states that its statistics cover fires it has mapped from satellite imagery, roughly 30 hectares and larger. Smaller fires, which make up most fire events in many countries, are not counted here. National fire statistics will therefore report different — usually much larger — fire counts.
- Some mapped burned areas may include fires set deliberately for vegetation management, not only unwanted wildfires.
- 2026 is incomplete. It covers only part of the year and is marked “YTD” throughout. It is excluded from historical averages, trend lines and projections unless you explicitly opt in, and it should not be compared with a full year without that in mind.
- Every derived figure — area per fire, the two rates, year-on-year change, difference from the historical average, moving averages and trends — is computed from these two quantities and, for the rates, from land area. Nothing else is added. Where a calculation is undefined, for example dividing by a year with zero fires, the interface shows N/A rather than a guess.
This is an independent visualization based on EFFIS data. It is not an official EFFIS or Copernicus service.