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Wildfires in Sălașu de Sus

Sălașu de Sus, Romania, has had 9 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 1,791 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.1% 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. Thu 5 Very low 7° · 79 % · 15 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 8° · 58 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 6° · 48 % · 17 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 8° · 50 % · 17 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 7° · 48 % · 17 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 11° · 55 % · 43 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 8° · 75 % · 36 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 13° · 55 % · 22 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Sălașu de Sus: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,791
hectares burned
8.1 %
of its area
9
fires
222
km²

How many times has Sălașu de Sus burned?

Sălașu de Sus has burned 9 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sălașu de Sus fire, August 2026, with 94 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,791 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 693 hectares, 3.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  4. 1× 19
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  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
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  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
9
fires
7
years with fire
1,791
cumulative ha
693
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 Sălașu de Sus

  1. 94 ha Sălașu de Sus fire, August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 249 ha Sălașu de Sus fire, March 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 249 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 466 ha Sălașu de Sus fire, March 2025 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 466 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 148 ha Sălașu de Sus fire, February 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 148 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 119 ha Sălașu de Sus fire, March 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 119 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 100 ha Sălașu de Sus fire, February 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 100 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 112 ha Sălașu de Sus fire, February 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 112 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 317 ha Sălașu de Sus fire, April 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 317 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 185 ha Sălașu de Sus fire, March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 185 ha in total · 3 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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