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Municipalities that have burned most often in Austria

Municipalities of Austria with at least one fire larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016: 8. With two or more: 3. Top of the list is Allentsteig, which has burned 5 times in 3 years, with 482 hectares burned inside its boundaries.

By number of fires

  1. 1AllentsteigNiederösterreich5×3 years · 482 ha
  2. 2Zwettl-NiederösterreichNiederösterreich3×3 years · 642 ha
  3. 3PöllaNiederösterreich2×2 years · 346 ha
  4. 4IllmitzBurgenland1×1 year · 168 ha
  5. 5Breitenbrunn am Neusiedler SeeBurgenland1×1 year · 144 ha
  6. 6EggendorfNiederösterreich1×1 year · 116 ha
  7. 7Winden am SeeBurgenland1×1 year · 3 ha
  8. 8EbenfurthNiederösterreich1×1 year · 2 ha

By hectares burned

  1. 1Zwettl-NiederösterreichNiederösterreich642 ha3× · 2.5 %
  2. 2AllentsteigNiederösterreich482 ha5× · 6.7 %
  3. 3PöllaNiederösterreich346 ha2× · 3.3 %
  4. 4IllmitzBurgenland168 ha1× · 1.8 %
  5. 5Breitenbrunn am Neusiedler SeeBurgenland144 ha1× · 5.6 %
  6. 6EggendorfNiederösterreich116 ha1× · 5.6 %
  7. 7Winden am SeeBurgenland3 ha1× · 0.2 %
  8. 8EbenfurthNiederösterreich2 ha1× · 0.1 %

By share of the municipality (10 km² or more)

  1. 1AllentsteigNiederösterreich6.7 %482 ha · 72 km²
  2. 2EggendorfNiederösterreich5.6 %116 ha · 21 km²
  3. 3Breitenbrunn am Neusiedler SeeBurgenland5.6 %144 ha · 26 km²
  4. 4PöllaNiederösterreich3.3 %346 ha · 104 km²
  5. 5Zwettl-NiederösterreichNiederösterreich2.5 %642 ha · 256 km²
  6. 6IllmitzBurgenland1.8 %168 ha · 92 km²
  7. 7Winden am SeeBurgenland0.2 %3 ha · 13 km²
  8. 8EbenfurthNiederösterreich0.1 %2 ha · 23 km²

How it is calculated

We count fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached each municipality, even partly. Hectares are those burned inside the municipality and are added fire by fire, so land that burned twice counts twice; that is why the share, given only for municipalities of 10 km² or more, can exceed 100 % (it is then shown as a multiple). It describes what happened: it does not measure risk or say anything about causes.