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Wildfires in Gârcov

Gârcov, Romania, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 497 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Mon 26 Very low 13° · 61 % · 42 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 14° · 54 % · 38 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 11° · 94 % · 23 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 14° · 82 % · 18 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 14° · 73 % · 16 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 14° · 77 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 11° · 65 % · 29 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 10° · 59 % · 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

497
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
4
fires
35
km²

How many times has Gârcov burned?

Gârcov has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2022 and 2024. The most recent: Gârcov fire, July 2024, with 99 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 497 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 412 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
497
cumulative ha
412
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 Gârcov

  1. 99 ha Gârcov fire, July 2024 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 140 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 149 ha Gârcov fire, June 2024 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 167 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 92 ha Islaz fire, August 2022 2.6% of the municipality · 531 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 156 ha Islaz fire, February 2020 4.5% of the municipality · 813 ha in total · 4 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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