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Wildfires in Sachsen

Sachsen, Germany: 5 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 13 districts since 2016, burning 2,919 hectares inside the region. The largest was Meißen in July 2025, with 2,061 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
2,919ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.2%
18,473 km²
fires
5
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 13
Largest fire
2,061ha
Meißen · July 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Very low 12° · 55 % · 46 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 12° · 56 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 11° · 58 % · 59 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 12° · 59 % · 78 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 11° · 60 % · 51 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 15° · 68 % · 52 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 71 % · 53 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 11° · 75 % · 43 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. Meißen 2,727 ha · 1.9 %
  2. Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge 148 ha · 0.1 %
  3. Nordsachsen 44 ha · 0.0 %

What burns in the region

  • Coniferous forest41 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland21 %
  • Other natural land20 %
  • Mixed forest12 %
  • Broadleaved forest4.0 %
  • Agricultural areas2.3 %

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
202512,061 Meißen 2,061 ha
20231100 Meißen 100 ha
20223757 Meißen 566 ha

All fires in Sachsen · 5

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).