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Wildfires in Vedea

Vedea, Romania, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 887 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 5 Very low 9° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 11° · 61 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 10° · 41 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 10° · 39 % · 19 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 10° · 43 % · 21 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 12° · 59 % · 21 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 13° · 65 % · 34 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 14° · 54 % · 19 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 Vedea: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

887
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
2
fires
81
km²

How many times has Vedea burned?

Vedea has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2023. The most recent: Vedea fire, August 2023, with 708 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 887 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 801 hectares, 9.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
887
cumulative ha
801
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 Vedea

  1. 42 ha Pietroșani fire, October 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 708 ha Vedea fire, August 2023 where it started 8.7% of the municipality · 804 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 179 ha Vedea fire, November 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 179 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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