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Wildfires in Zadar County

Zadar County, Croatia: 65 fires with a page have entered 16 of its 31 municipalities since 2016, burning 38,748 hectares inside the region. The largest was Općina Gračac in 5 April 2020, with 4,567 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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
38,748ha
Since 2016
Of the region
11%
3,627 km²
fires
65
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
16
of 31
Largest fire
4,567ha
Općina Gračac · 5 April 2020
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 5 Very low 13° · 56 % · 28 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very low 14° · 55 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very low 11° · 60 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very low 13° · 75 % · 26 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 13° · 71 % · 19 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 13° · 81 % · 25 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very low 14° · 91 % · 26 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 15° · 93 % · 30 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Općina Gračac 25,569 ha · 26 %
  2. Grad Benkovac 6,858 ha · 10 %
  3. Općina Jasenice 2,312 ha · 19 %
  4. Općina Pakoštane 1,462 ha · 18 %
  5. Grad Obrovac 735 ha · 2.4 %
  6. Grad Pag 634 ha · 4.8 %
  7. Općina Ražanac 267 ha · 3.9 %
  8. Općina Sali 214 ha · 1.8 %
  9. Općina Škabrnja 191 ha · 9.3 %
  10. Općina Sukošan 117 ha · 2.1 %
  11. Općina Sveti Filip i Jakov 102 ha · 2.1 %
  12. Općina Polača 93 ha · 3.1 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land47 %
  • Broadleaved forest29 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland14 %
  • Agricultural areas9.2 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20263928 Općina Gračac 570 ha
20252429 Općina Galovac 265 ha
20242581 Općina Gračac 473 ha
202297,564 Općina Gračac 3,140 ha
20212175 Općina Pakoštane 108 ha
2020116,481 Općina Gračac 4,567 ha
201971,493 Općina Gračac 317 ha
20172720,674 Grad Benkovac 3,874 ha
20162424 Općina Gračac 269 ha

All fires in Zadar County · 65

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/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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