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Wildfires in Gighera

Gighera, Romania, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2019: 178 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.4% 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.

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Very low 12° · 62 % · 41 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 14° · 53 % · 37 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 11° · 86 % · 25 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 66 % · 20 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 13° · 83 % · 33 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 12° · 91 % · 29 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 10° · 88 % · 25 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 11° · 67 % · 30 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

178
hectares burned
1.4 %
of its area
1
fires
131
km²

How many times has Gighera burned?

Gighera has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2019. The most recent: Gighera fire, November 2019, with 178 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
178
cumulative ha
6 Nov 2019
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 Gighera

  1. 14 ha Gângiova fire, October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 168 ha Gighera fire, September 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 178 ha Gighera fire, November 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 193 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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