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Wildfires in Lăpugiu de Jos

Lăpugiu de Jos, Romania, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 896 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.7% 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. Tue 3 Very low 8° · 81 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 7° · 79 % · 30 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 8° · 77 % · 22 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 7° · 53 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 7° · 42 % · 20 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 9° · 43 % · 18 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 10° · 50 % · 18 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 7° · 75 % · 39 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

896
hectares burned
8.7 %
of its area
5
fires
103
km²

How many times has Lăpugiu de Jos burned?

Lăpugiu de Jos has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Lăpugiu de Jos fire, March 2025, with 111 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 896 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 824 hectares, 8.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
896
cumulative ha
824
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 Lăpugiu de Jos

  1. 111 ha Lăpugiu de Jos fire, March 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 111 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 300 ha Lăpugiu de Jos fire, September 2024 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 341 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 22 ha Lăpugiu de Jos fire, March 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 207 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 388 ha Lăpugiu de Jos fire, April 2020 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 476 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 76 ha Lăpugiu de Jos fire, March 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 110 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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