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Wildfires in Vașcău

Vașcău, Romania, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 355 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.5% 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. Sun 25 Very low 15° · 46 % · 24 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 9° · 78 % · 30 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 9° · 77 % · 28 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 14° · 62 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 12° · 79 % · 23 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 11° · 83 % · 30 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 11° · 76 % · 19 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 12° · 67 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

355
hectares burned
5.5 %
of its area
4
fires
64
km²

How many times has Vașcău burned?

Vașcău has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024. The most recent: Cărpinet fire, March 2024, with 40 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 355 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 322 hectares, 5.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
355
cumulative ha
322
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 Vașcău

  1. 40 ha Cărpinet fire, March 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 139 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 136 ha Vașcău fire, March 2022 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 143 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 48 ha Cărpinet fire, February 2021 0.8% of the municipality · 216 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 130 ha Lunca fire, April 2020 2.0% of the municipality · 140 ha in total · 2 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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