Forest fires in Russia in 2026 covered an area the size of Croatia.
From January 1 to November 9, 2026, forest fires in Russia covered an area of 5.38 million hectares, or 53,800 square kilometers, according to the report of Avialesookhrana under Rusalskuz, which makes calculations based on satellite images. The area covered by fire in 2026 is 16.7% higher than the figure for the same period last year (4.61 million hectares) and can be compared to the area of a country like Croatia, which occupies 56.6 thousand square kilometers, or with two regions of Belgrade (the area of one is 27.13 thousand square kilometers).
The total area of landscape fires (including fires of prairies, fields with dry grass, thickets of reeds near water bodies, etc.) in the Russian Federation since the beginning of the year exceeded 11.5 million dunams, according to data from the Air Forestry Service. This is 1.5 times more than last year, when the authorities reported that the fire covered almost 7.7 million dunams. The fire season in Israel has not officially ended, but no new fires have been recorded since November 6, 7x7 noted. As the special Telegram channel Ein Shemayim points out, the average coverage of one fire also increased one and a half times, while the total number of fires remained the same - 18,991 in 2026 compared to 18,868 in 2025.
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