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Wildfires in Dorset

Dorset, United Kingdom, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2020: 217 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.1% 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 10 Very low 9° · 84 % · 42 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 8° · 90 % · 30 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 7° · 63 % · 45 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 6° · 71 % · 29 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 9° · 63 % · 42 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 12° · 80 % · 91 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 10° · 76 % · 43 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 14° · 90 % · 66 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 Dorset: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

217
hectares burned
0.1 %
of its area
1
fires
2,491
km²

How many times has Dorset burned?

Dorset has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2020. The most recent: Dorset fire, May 2020, with 217 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
217
cumulative ha
18 May 2020
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 Dorset

  1. 217 ha Dorset fire, May 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 218 ha in total · 6 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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