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Wildfires in Băile Herculane

Băile Herculane, Romania, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2025: 1,664 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 24% 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. Thu 5 Very low 6° · 87 % · 19 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 8° · 61 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 7° · 60 % · 18 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 6° · 54 % · 25 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 6° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 8° · 64 % · 54 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 9° · 57 % · 54 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 11° · 38 % · 25 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Băile Herculane: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,664
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
5
fires
70
km²

How many times has Băile Herculane burned?

Băile Herculane has burned 5 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Podeni fire, October 2026, with 262 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 4× 26
5
fires
2
years with fire
1,664
cumulative ha
4 Oct 2026
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.

Where it has burned most often in Romania

Fires that entered Băile Herculane

  1. 262 ha Podeni fire, October 2026 3.7% of the municipality · 778 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 488 ha Băile Herculane fire, 17 September 2026 where it started 7.0% of the municipality · 489 ha in total · 24 days
  3. 473 ha Băile Herculane fire, 10 September 2026 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 477 ha in total · 31 days
  4. 421 ha Băile Herculane fire, 10 September 2026 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 426 ha in total · 41 days
  5. 20 ha Topleț fire, March 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 257 ha in total · 3 days

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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