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Wildfires in Oldham

Oldham, United Kingdom, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 468 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.3% 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 3 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° · 87 % · 66 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 14° · 69 % · 77 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 80 % · 48 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 12° · 74 % · 30 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 77 % · 31 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 11° · 81 % · 47 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 11° · 90 % · 29 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 10° · 71 % · 38 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

468
hectares burned
3.3 %
of its area
4
fires
144
km²

How many times has Oldham burned?

Oldham has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2019, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Derbyshire fire, July 2026, with 1 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 468 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 438 hectares, 3.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
4
years with fire
468
cumulative ha
438
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 Oldham

  1. 1 ha Derbyshire fire, July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 660 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 35 ha Kirklees fire, April 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 317 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 207 ha Oldham fire, April 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 291 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 32 ha Kirklees fire, May 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 111 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 262 ha Kirklees fire, April 2019 1.8% of the municipality · 639 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 3 ha Kirklees fire, February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 113 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 173 ha Tameside fire, June 2018 1.2% 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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