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Wildfires in Älvdalen

Älvdalen, Sweden, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 3,606 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.5% 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. Sat 14 Very low -2° · 83 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 2° · 92 % · 41 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 2° · 88 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low -3° · 85 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low -4° · 80 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low -3° · 83 % · 22 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low -2° · 81 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low -1° · 83 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Älvdalen: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,606
hectares burned
0.5 %
of its area
3
fires
7,234
km²

How many times has Älvdalen burned?

Älvdalen has burned 3 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2018. The most recent: Älvdalen fire, 22 July 2018, with 158 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 3× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
1
years with fire
3,606
cumulative ha
22 Jul 2018
most recent

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 Sweden

Fires that entered Älvdalen

  1. 158 ha Älvdalen fire, 22 July 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 159 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,284 ha Älvdalen fire, 17 July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,289 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 2,164 ha Älvdalen fire, 15 July 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,175 ha in total · 11 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). 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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