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Wildfires in Lăpușnicel

Lăpușnicel, Romania: 14 fires since 2019 burned 7,913 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.1 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 25 Very low 15° · 47 % · 27 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 10° · 69 % · 37 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 9° · 67 % · 35 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 63 % · 16 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 13° · 72 % · 26 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 15° · 63 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 14° · 58 % · 19 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 6° · 91 % · 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

7,913
hectares burned
1.1×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
14
fires
74
km²

How many times has Lăpușnicel burned?

Lăpușnicel has burned 14 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lăpușnicel fire, August 2026, with 399 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,913 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,616 hectares, 49 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 1× 26
14
fires
7
years with fire
7,913
cumulative ha
3,616
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 Lăpușnicel

  1. 399 ha Lăpușnicel fire, August 2026 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 399 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 23 ha Iablanița fire, 8 March 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 404 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 144 ha Lăpușnicel fire, 6 March 2025 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 146 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,425 ha Lăpușnicel fire, 6 March 2025 where it started 19% of the municipality · 1,896 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 486 ha Iablanița fire, 6 March 2025 6.5% of the municipality · 1,158 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 360 ha Lăpușnicel fire, 28 February 2024 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 599 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 803 ha Lăpușnicel fire, 17 February 2024 where it started 11% of the municipality · 1,081 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 1,060 ha Lăpușnicel fire, 23 March 2022 where it started 14% of the municipality · 1,897 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,954 ha Lăpușnicel fire, 20 March 2022 where it started 26% of the municipality · 2,705 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 16 ha Prigor fire, February 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 228 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 455 ha Lăpușnicel fire, March 2020 where it started 6.1% of the municipality · 455 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 259 ha Lăpușnicel fire, April 2019 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 273 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 26 ha Prigor fire, 27 March 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 229 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 502 ha Lăpușnicel fire, February 2019 where it started 6.7% of the municipality · 676 ha in total · 6 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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