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Wildfires in Kirklees

Kirklees, United Kingdom, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 455 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.1% 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.

These figures leave out 6 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. Thu 5 Very low 10° · 73 % · 44 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 10° · 74 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 9° · 70 % · 12 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 10° · 74 % · 16 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 6° · 87 % · 17 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 9° · 82 % · 35 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 10° · 93 % · 31 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 9° · 76 % · 45 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 Kirklees: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

455
hectares burned
1.1 %
of its area
2
fires
405
km²

How many times has Kirklees burned?

Kirklees has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2023. The most recent: Kirklees fire, May 2023, with 79 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 455 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 411 hectares, 1.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
455
cumulative ha
411
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 Kirklees

  1. 281 ha Kirklees fire, April 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 317 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 150 ha Kirklees fire, 11 April 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 150 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 83 ha Oldham fire, April 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 291 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 131 ha Kirklees fire, 3 April 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 131 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 79 ha Kirklees fire, May 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 111 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 158 ha Kirklees fire, March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 159 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 376 ha Kirklees fire, April 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 639 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 110 ha Kirklees fire, February 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 113 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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