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RO · Romania · Caraș-Severin · 2,529 inhabitants

Wildfires in Carașova

Carașova, Romania, has had 13 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 3,313 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% 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 8° · 87 % · 37 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 9° · 91 % · 36 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 9° · 79 % · 16 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 8° · 77 % · 23 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 8° · 75 % · 19 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 8° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 9° · 56 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 11° · 49 % · 22 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

3,313
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
13
fires
144
km²

How many times has Carașova burned?

Carașova has burned 13 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Carașova fire, August 2024, with 254 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,313 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,971 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
13
fires
7
years with fire
3,313
cumulative ha
1,971
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 Carașova

  1. 254 ha Carașova fire, August 2024 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 254 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 244 ha Carașova fire, March 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 244 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 215 ha Carașova fire, March 2022 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 215 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 126 ha Carașova fire, March 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 126 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 510 ha Carașova fire, April 2020 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 510 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 149 ha Carașova fire, March 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 149 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 400 ha Carașova fire, 17 March 2019 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 400 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 25 ha Goruia fire, March 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 278 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 338 ha Carașova fire, 15 March 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 338 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 447 ha Carașova fire, 5 March 2019 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 626 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 292 ha Carașova fire, April 2017 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 293 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 211 ha Carașova fire, 30 March 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 212 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 102 ha Carașova fire, 23 March 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 102 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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