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Wildfires in Tameside

Tameside, United Kingdom, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 788 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.7% 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. Sat 24 Very low 12° · 70 % · 77 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 9° · 62 % · 87 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 14° · 85 % · 64 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 14° · 75 % · 72 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 80 % · 52 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 12° · 82 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 10° · 82 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 11° · 75 % · 36 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

788
hectares burned
7.7 %
of its area
2
fires
102
km²

How many times has Tameside burned?

Tameside has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2026. The most recent: Derbyshire fire, July 2026, with 55 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 788 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 733 hectares, 7.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
788
cumulative ha
733
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 Tameside

  1. 55 ha Derbyshire fire, July 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 660 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 733 ha Tameside fire, June 2018 where it started 7.2% 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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