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Wildfires in Bütgenbach

Bütgenbach, Belgium, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 549 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 1 Very low 7° · 85 % · 26 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 8° · 85 % · 30 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 6° · 60 % · 46 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 6° · 78 % · 55 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 7° · 70 % · 44 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 9° · 64 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 8° · 76 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 8° · 82 % · 27 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

549
hectares burned
5.7 %
of its area
3
fires
97
km²

How many times has Bütgenbach burned?

Bütgenbach has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Baelen fire, August 2026, with 8 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 549 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 479 hectares, 5.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
549
cumulative ha
479
distinct ha

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Belgium →

Fires that entered Bütgenbach

  1. 8 ha Baelen fire, August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,655 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 341 ha Bütgenbach fire, March 2025 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 496 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 200 ha Bütgenbach fire, February 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 200 ha in total · 1 day

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Namur Capitale, Statistics Belgium (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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