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Wildfires in Caerphilly

Caerphilly, United Kingdom, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2022: 140 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.

These figures leave out 2 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Very low 14° · 80 % · 64 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 13° · 65 % · 65 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 80 % · 44 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 12° · 75 % · 41 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 80 % · 37 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 12° · 83 % · 59 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 11° · 87 % · 34 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 8° · 91 % · 24 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

140
hectares burned
0.5 %
of its area
1
fires
277
km²

How many times has Caerphilly burned?

Caerphilly has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Merthyr Tydfil fire, August 2026, with 140 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
140
cumulative ha
11 Aug 2026
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 United Kingdom →

Fires that entered Caerphilly

  1. 140 ha Merthyr Tydfil fire, August 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 175 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 183 ha Caerphilly fire, March 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 360 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 20 ha Merthyr Tydfil fire, 26 March 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 194 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0). 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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