Wildfires in Lapland
Lapland, Finland: 3 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 21 municipalities since 2016, burning 2,052 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kolari in August 2021, with 1,017 hectares inside the region. 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.
- hectares burned
- 2,052ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.0%
- 98,033 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 21
- Largest fire
- 1,017ha
- Kolari · August 2021
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 27 Very low 7° · 97 % · 37 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 9° · 97 % · 45 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 7° · 92 % · 39 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 4° · 89 % · 25 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 3° · 98 % · 30 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 3° · 93 % · 35 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 1° · 88 % · 24 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 1° · 70 % · 35 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | 2,052 | Kolari 1,017 ha |
All fires in Lapland · 3
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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