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Wildfires in Apostolache

Apostolache, Romania, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 515 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% 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. Sat 24 Very low 14° · 59 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 14° · 61 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 14° · 67 % · 44 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 11° · 72 % · 45 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 60 % · 39 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 60 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 14° · 72 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 13° · 62 % · 22 km/h
  9. Sun 1 Very low 12° · 62 % · 23 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

515
hectares burned
25 %
of its area
7
fires
20
km²

How many times has Apostolache burned?

Apostolache has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Șoimari fire, February 2024, with 43 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 515 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 380 hectares, 19 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
5
years with fire
515
cumulative ha
380
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 Romania →

Fires that entered Apostolache

  1. 43 ha Șoimari fire, February 2024 2.1% of the municipality · 392 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1 ha Chiojdeanca fire, March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 159 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 262 ha Apostolache fire, March 2022 where it started 13% of the municipality · 318 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 49 ha Podenii Noi fire, January 2022 2.4% of the municipality · 205 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 49 ha Podenii Noi fire, February 2021 2.4% of the municipality · 310 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 101 ha Apostolache fire, March 2019 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 108 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 10 ha Podenii Noi fire, February 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 127 ha in total · 1 day

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Agentia Nationala de Cadastru si Publicitate Imobiliara (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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