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Municipalities that have burned most often in Netherlands

Municipalities of Netherlands with at least one fire larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016: 7. With two or more: 0. Top of the list is Deurne, which has burned once in 1 year, with 645 hectares burned inside its boundaries.

By number of fires

  1. 1DeurneNoord-Brabant1×1 year · 645 ha
  2. 2ElburgGelderland1×1 year · 420 ha
  3. 3RoerdalenLimburg1×1 year · 173 ha
  4. 4CranendonckNoord-Brabant1×1 year · 114 ha
  5. 5OldebroekGelderland1×1 year · 105 ha
  6. 6WeertLimburg1×1 year · 13 ha
  7. 7Horst aan de MaasLimburg1×1 year · 3 ha

By hectares burned

  1. 1DeurneNoord-Brabant645 ha1× · 5.5 %
  2. 2ElburgGelderland420 ha1× · 6.4 %
  3. 3RoerdalenLimburg173 ha1× · 1.9 %
  4. 4CranendonckNoord-Brabant114 ha1× · 1.5 %
  5. 5OldebroekGelderland105 ha1× · 1.1 %
  6. 6WeertLimburg13 ha1× · 0.1 %
  7. 7Horst aan de MaasLimburg3 ha1× · 0.0 %

By share of the municipality (10 km² or more)

  1. 1ElburgGelderland6.4 %420 ha · 66 km²
  2. 2DeurneNoord-Brabant5.5 %645 ha · 118 km²
  3. 3RoerdalenLimburg1.9 %173 ha · 89 km²
  4. 4CranendonckNoord-Brabant1.5 %114 ha · 78 km²
  5. 5OldebroekGelderland1.1 %105 ha · 98 km²
  6. 6WeertLimburg0.1 %13 ha · 106 km²
  7. 7Horst aan de MaasLimburg0.0 %3 ha · 192 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.