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Wildfires in Austria
8 fires over 100 hectares with an official perimeter since 2020, adding up to 1,904 hectares burned across 8 municipalities.
Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the official yearly series.
The official record
2006–2026Yearly average 2019–2025354 ha
Worst year2022 1,016 ha
With a page here8 since 2020
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›See the year-by-year table
| Year | Fires | hectares | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 5 | 444 | EFFIS |
| 2025 | 2 | 431 | EFFIS |
| 2024 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2023 | 5 | 398 | EFFIS |
| 2022 | 5 | 1,016 | EFFIS |
| 2021 | 1 | 72 | EFFIS |
| 2020 | 1 | 168 | EFFIS |
| 2019 | 1 | 38 | EFFIS |
| 2018 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2017 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2016 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2015 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2014 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2013 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2012 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2011 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2010 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2009 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2008 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2007 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
| 2006 | 0 | — | EFFIS |
National estimates from Copernicus EFFIS, which only counts fires larger than 30 hectares.
When it burned: year by year, month by month
Hectares with an official perimeter by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Σ | Largest of the year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 143 | 143 | Zwettl-Niederösterreich 143 ha | |||||||||||
| 2025 | 431 | 431 | Zwettl-Niederösterreich 249 ha | |||||||||||
| 2023 | 118 | 147 | 265 | Breitenbrunn am Neusiedler See 147 ha | ||||||||||
| 2022 | 332 | 565 | 897 | Zwettl-Niederösterreich 565 ha | ||||||||||
| 2020 | 168 | 168 | Illmitz 168 ha |
Hectares burned per year
Largest recorded fires
By region
- Niederösterreich 1,588 ha · 6
- Burgenland 315 ha · 2