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Wildfires in Văgiulești

Văgiulești, Romania, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2021: 323 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Wed 28 Very low 15° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 61 % · 20 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 13° · 91 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 13° · 68 % · 37 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 10° · 73 % · 22 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 11° · 94 % · 28 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 12° · 60 % · 35 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

323
hectares burned
6.7 %
of its area
3
fires
48
km²

How many times has Văgiulești burned?

Văgiulești has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Văgiulești fire, August 2026, with 155 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 323 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 262 hectares, 5.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
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  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
323
cumulative ha
262
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 Văgiulești

  1. 155 ha Văgiulești fire, August 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 184 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 50 ha Samarinești fire, March 2022 1.0% of the municipality · 115 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 119 ha Văgiulești fire, March 2021 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 119 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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