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Wildfires in Bayern

Bayern, Germany: 9 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 96 districts since 2016, burning 2,463 hectares inside the region. The largest was Neustadt a.d. Waldnaab in March 2022, with 918 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
2,463ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.0%
70,531 km²
fires
9
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
1
of 96
Largest fire
918ha
Neustadt a.d. Waldnaab · March 2022
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 10° · 66 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 9° · 51 % · 52 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 11° · 88 % · 51 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 10° · 57 % · 43 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 15° · 64 % · 33 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 65 % · 46 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 12° · 61 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 65 % · 15 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Neustadt a.d. Waldnaab 2,463 ha · 1.7 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land86 %
  • Mixed forest7.8 %
  • Broadleaved forest2.8 %
  • Coniferous forest1.9 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland1.2 %

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
20262542 Neustadt a.d. Waldnaab 350 ha
20255898 Neustadt a.d. Waldnaab 229 ha
202221,023 Neustadt a.d. Waldnaab 918 ha

All fires in Bayern · 9

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/Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (Data license Germany - Attribution - Version 2.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).