Wildfires in Niedersachsen
Niedersachsen, Germany: 7 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 52 districts since 2016, burning 2,206 hectares inside the region. The largest was Emsland in September 2018, with 1,058 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
- 2,206ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.0%
- 47,851 km²
- fires
- 7
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 52
- Largest fire
- 1,058ha
- Emsland · September 2018
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 3 Very low 10° · 62 % · 26 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 9° · 67 % · 35 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 9° · 74 % · 39 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 9° · 71 % · 35 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 7° · 79 % · 27 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 9° · 69 % · 18 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 8° · 89 % · 22 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 7° · 82 % · 31 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Emsland 1,541 ha · 0.5 %
- Heidekreis 555 ha · 0.3 %
- Lüneburg, Landkreis 110 ha · 0.1 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land99 %
- Agricultural areas0.8 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 3×Emsland1,541 ha
- 3×Heidekreis555 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,058 haEmslandSeptember 2018 · 7 days
- 363 haEmslandFebruary 2018 · 2 days
- 287 haHeidekreisFebruary 2025 · 2 days
- 141 haHeidekreisMarch 2026 · 27 days
- 126 haHeidekreisMarch 2022 · 2 days
- 120 haEmslandMay 2026 · 1 day
- 110 haLüneburg, LandkreisFebruary 2025 · 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 | 2 | 261 | Heidekreis 141 ha |
| 2025 | 2 | 397 | Heidekreis 287 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 126 | Heidekreis 126 ha |
| 2018 | 2 | 1,421 | Emsland 1,058 ha |
All fires in Niedersachsen · 7
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).
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