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Wildfires in Kiruna

Kiruna, Sweden, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 555 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.0% 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 27 Very low 5° · 98 % · 36 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 5° · 97 % · 35 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 1° · 98 % · 27 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 2° · 92 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 2° · 95 % · 19 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 2° · 92 % · 24 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 0° · 88 % · 22 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low -1° · 72 % · 43 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

555
hectares burned
0.0 %
of its area
2
fires
20,342
km²

How many times has Kiruna burned?

Kiruna has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2021. The most recent: Kiruna fire, July 2021, with 451 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
555
cumulative ha
19 Jul 2021
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 Kiruna

  1. 451 ha Kiruna fire, July 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 447 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 104 ha Kiruna fire, June 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 106 ha in total · 1 day

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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