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RO · Romania · Mehedinți · 8,506 inhabitants

Wildfires in ORSOVA

ORSOVA, Romania, has had 6 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 874 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 17° · 32 % · 48 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 16° · 49 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 16° · 48 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 14° · 49 % · 48 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 14° · 41 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 17° · 36 % · 21 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 14° · 58 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 14° · 61 % · 45 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

874
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
6
fires
49
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered ORSOVA

  1. 1 ha ESELNITA fire, 29 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 115 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 122 ha ORSOVA fire, 21 September 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 122 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 112 ha ORSOVA fire, March 2025 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 111 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 174 ha ORSOVA fire, February 2024 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 174 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 466 ha ORSOVA fire, March 2022 where it started 9.6% of the municipality · 466 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 0 ha TOPLET fire, March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 212 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).