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Wildfires in Derbyshire

Derbyshire, United Kingdom, has had 5 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 1,383 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.5% 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.

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. Tue 10 Very low 8° · 86 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 9° · 74 % · 29 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 6° · 59 % · 31 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 6° · 60 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 6° · 77 % · 17 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 5° · 93 % · 59 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 6° · 86 % · 39 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 13° · 85 % · 48 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 Derbyshire: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,383
hectares burned
0.5 %
of its area
5
fires
2,548
km²

How many times has Derbyshire burned?

Derbyshire has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Derbyshire fire, July 2026, with 608 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,383 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,195 hectares, 0.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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5
fires
3
years with fire
1,383
cumulative ha
1,195
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 United Kingdom

Fires that entered Derbyshire

  1. 608 ha Derbyshire fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 660 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 190 ha Derbyshire fire, June 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 188 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 201 ha Derbyshire fire, May 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 200 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 164 ha Derbyshire fire, April 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 174 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 199 ha Derbyshire fire, March 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 197 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 11 ha Sheffield fire, February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 115 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 220 ha Tameside fire, June 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 1,127 ha in total · 10 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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