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Wildfires in Vața de Jos

Vața de Jos, Romania, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 525 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.6% 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. Tue 10 Very low 10° · 79 % · 27 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 13° · 61 % · 17 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 13° · 95 % · 33 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 16° · 62 % · 50 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 10° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 10° · 41 % · 30 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 14° · 49 % · 28 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 10° · 82 % · 41 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 Vața de Jos: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

525
hectares burned
2.6 %
of its area
7
fires
202
km²

How many times has Vața de Jos burned?

Vața de Jos has burned 7 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Zam fire, 9 March 2025, with 29 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 525 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 478 hectares, 2.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
7
fires
3
years with fire
525
cumulative ha
478
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 Vața de Jos

  1. 29 ha Zam fire, 9 March 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 208 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 6 ha Vorța fire, 5 March 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 863 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 349 ha Petriș fire, 4 March 2025 1.7% of the municipality · 530 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 0 ha Zam fire, 27 March 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 103 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 0 ha Vorța fire, 19 March 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 457 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 44 ha Zam fire, 13 March 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 125 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 97 ha Vața de Jos fire, April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 108 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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