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Wildfires in Lelese

Lelese, Romania, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2022: 1,586 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% of its area. 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. Fri 23 Very low 12° · 54 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 12° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 14° · 50 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 9° · 77 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 10° · 62 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 10° · 59 % · 19 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 11° · 67 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 8° · 80 % · 36 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

1,586
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
3
fires
76
km²

How many times has Lelese burned?

Lelese has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lelese fire, March 2026, with 192 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,586 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,052 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,586
cumulative ha
1,052
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 Lelese

  1. 192 ha Lelese fire, March 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 192 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 930 ha Lelese fire, March 2025 where it started 12% of the municipality · 930 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 465 ha Lelese fire, March 2022 where it started 6.1% of the municipality · 465 ha in total · 5 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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