Wildfires in Powys

Name: Powys
Address: GB

Powys, United Kingdom, has had 14 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 11,748 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.3% 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 27 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

Fri 13 Very low 6° · 67 % · 13 km/h
Sat 14 Very low 6° · 77 % · 28 km/h
Sun 15 Very low 8° · 91 % · 39 km/h
Mon 16 Very low 4° · 77 % · 58 km/h
Tue 17 Very low 8° · 90 % · 58 km/h
Wed 18 Very low 9° · 94 % · 38 km/h
Thu 19 Very low 6° · 93 % · 48 km/h
Fri 20 Very low 4° · 83 % · 42 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 Powys: hourly forecast

Since 2016

11,748
hectares burned: 2.3 %
of its area: 14
fires: 5,193
km²

How many times has Powys burned?

Powys has burned 14 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Powys fire, 19 August 2026, with 124 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 11,748 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,240 hectares, 2.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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1× 18
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3× 20
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1× 22
1× 23
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6× 26

14
fires: 6
years with fire: 11,748
cumulative ha: 10,240
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 Powys

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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