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Wildfires in Kittilä

Kittilä, Finland, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 650 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.1% 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. Wed 4 Very low 7° · 56 % · 45 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 3° · 69 % · 42 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 1° · 72 % · 31 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 4° · 83 % · 33 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 4° · 76 % · 39 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 5° · 70 % · 44 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low -2° · 73 % · 46 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low -4° · 83 % · 26 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

650
hectares burned
0.1 %
of its area
2
fires
8,238
km²

How many times has Kittilä burned?

Kittilä has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2021. The most recent: Kittilä fire, August 2021, with 426 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
650
cumulative ha
19 Aug 2021
most recent

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.

Fires that entered Kittilä

  1. 426 ha Kittilä fire, August 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 429 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 225 ha Muonio fire, August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 612 ha in total · 1 day

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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