Wildfires in Niederösterreich
Niederösterreich, Austria: 6 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 570 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,588 hectares inside the region. The largest was Zwettl-Niederösterreich in March 2022, with 565 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).
Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 1,588ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.1%
- 19,205 km²
- fires
- 6
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 570
- Largest fire
- 565ha
- Zwettl-Niederösterreich · March 2022
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 4 Very low 9° · 64 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 10° · 68 % · 31 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 10° · 63 % · 34 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 10° · 61 % · 27 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 9° · 61 % · 17 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 5° · 80 % · 27 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 10° · 78 % · 42 km/h
- Wed 11 Very low 8° · 78 % · 28 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Zwettl-Niederösterreich 642 ha · 2.5 %
- Allentsteig 482 ha · 6.7 %
- Pölla 346 ha · 3.3 %
- Eggendorf 116 ha · 5.6 %
- Ebenfurth 2 ha · 0.1 %
What burns in the region
- Agricultural areas56 %
- Coniferous forest25 %
- Mixed forest9.5 %
- Other natural land7.4 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland1.8 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 5×Allentsteig482 ha
- 3×Zwettl-Niederösterreich642 ha
- 2×Pölla346 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 565 haZwettl-NiederösterreichMarch 2022 · 4 days
- 331 haAllentsteigFebruary 2022 · 4 days
- 249 haZwettl-NiederösterreichFebruary 2025 · 2 days
- 182 haPöllaFebruary 2025 · 1 day
- 143 haZwettl-NiederösterreichMarch 2026 · 1 day
- 118 haEggendorfFebruary 2023 · 2 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 143 | Zwettl-Niederösterreich 143 ha |
| 2025 | 2 | 431 | Zwettl-Niederösterreich 249 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 118 | Eggendorf 118 ha |
| 2022 | 2 | 896 | Zwettl-Niederösterreich 565 ha |
All fires in Niederösterreich · 6
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Federal Office for Metrology and Survey, Austria (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0). 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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