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Wildfires in Postojna

Postojna, Slovenia, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2020: 815 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 11° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 13° · 60 % · 52 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 10° · 66 % · 54 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 9° · 60 % · 52 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 5° · 87 % · 68 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 6° · 82 % · 73 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 4° · 80 % · 70 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 4° · 75 % · 65 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

815
hectares burned
3.0 %
of its area
4
fires
270
km²

How many times has Postojna burned?

Postojna has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Postojna fire, February 2026, with 279 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 815 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 333 hectares, 1.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  5. 1× 20
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  7. 1× 22
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  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
4
years with fire
815
cumulative ha
333
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 Slovenia →

Fires that entered Postojna

  1. 279 ha Postojna fire, February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 279 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 143 ha Postojna fire, February 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 143 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 270 ha Postojna fire, March 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 270 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 124 ha Postojna fire, January 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 124 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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