Wildfires in Brandenburg
Brandenburg, Germany: 19 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 18 districts since 2016, burning 4,279 hectares inside the region. The largest was Teltow-Fläming in June 2023, with 614 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
- 4,279ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.1%
- 29,614 km²
- fires
- 19
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 18
- Largest fire
- 614ha
- Teltow-Fläming · June 2023
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 13° · 62 % · 43 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 12° · 63 % · 46 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 14° · 54 % · 59 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 12° · 66 % · 54 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 15° · 75 % · 48 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 14° · 66 % · 45 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 12° · 86 % · 49 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 10° · 92 % · 31 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Teltow-Fläming 2,168 ha · 1.0 %
- Elbe-Elster 707 ha · 0.4 %
- Potsdam-Mittelmark 594 ha · 0.2 %
- Ostprignitz-Ruppin 545 ha · 0.2 %
- Spree-Neiße 133 ha · 0.1 %
- Dahme-Spreewald 131 ha · 0.1 %
What burns in the region
- Coniferous forest38 %
- Other natural land28 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland17 %
- Broadleaved forest8.3 %
- Mixed forest7.7 %
- Agricultural areas1.2 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 9×Teltow-Fläming2,168 ha
- 4×Potsdam-Mittelmark594 ha
- 3×Elbe-Elster707 ha
- 3×Ostprignitz-Ruppin545 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 614 haTeltow-FlämingJune 2023 · 4 days
- 589 haTeltow-FlämingJune 2019 · 4 days
- 360 haElbe-ElsterJuly 2022 · 4 days of 405 ha in total
- 344 haMeißenJune 2022 · 5 days of 911 ha in total
- 293 haTeltow-FlämingJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 275 haOstprignitz-RuppinFebruary 2025 · 2 days
- 244 haTeltow-FlämingJuly 2018 · 4 days
- 222 haPotsdam-MittelmarkAugust 2018 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 544 | Teltow-Fläming 293 ha |
| 2025 | 4 | 399 | Ostprignitz-Ruppin 275 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 179 | Teltow-Fläming 179 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 614 | Teltow-Fläming 614 ha |
| 2022 | 4 | 1,069 | Elbe-Elster 360 ha |
| 2019 | 3 | 873 | Teltow-Fläming 589 ha |
| 2018 | 3 | 599 | Teltow-Fläming 244 ha |
All fires in Brandenburg · 19
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 293 haTeltow-FlämingJuly 2026 · 1 day
- 135 haTeltow-FlämingMay 2026 · 1 day
- 117 haOstprignitz-RuppinMarch 2026 · 1 day
- 8 haJerichower LandJuly 2025 · 1 day of 129 ha in total
- 113 haTeltow-FlämingJuly 2025 · 2 days
- 3 haMeißenJuly 2025 · 4 days of 2,060 ha in total
- 275 haOstprignitz-RuppinFebruary 2025 · 2 days
- 179 haTeltow-FlämingAugust 2024 · 2 days
- 614 haTeltow-FlämingJune 2023 · 4 days
- 360 haElbe-ElsterJuly 2022 · 4 days of 405 ha in total
- 344 haMeißenJune 2022 · 5 days of 911 ha in total
- 220 haPotsdam-Mittelmark19 June 2022 · 1 day
- 145 haPotsdam-Mittelmark17 June 2022 · 3 days
- 131 haDahme-SpreewaldJune 2019 · 2 days
- 589 haTeltow-FlämingJune 2019 · 4 days
- 153 haOstprignitz-RuppinFebruary 2019 · 1 day
- 222 haPotsdam-MittelmarkAugust 2018 · 1 day
- 244 haTeltow-FlämingJuly 2018 · 4 days
- 133 haSpree-NeißeJuly 2018 · 2 days
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).