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Wildfires in Thüringen

Thüringen, Germany: 2 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 23 districts since 2016, burning 568 hectares inside the region. The largest was Gotha in March 2025, with 421 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
568ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.0%
16,171 km²
fires
2
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
2
of 23
Largest fire
421ha
Gotha · March 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° · 60 % · 50 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 13° · 55 % · 59 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 11° · 65 % · 56 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 13° · 51 % · 81 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 11° · 59 % · 52 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 15° · 71 % · 52 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 61 % · 54 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 12° · 72 % · 42 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. Gotha 560 ha · 0.6 %
  2. Ilm-Kreis 8 ha · 0.0 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land98 %
  • Broadleaved forest1.6 %

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
20251421 Gotha 421 ha
20241147 Gotha 147 ha

All fires in Thüringen · 2

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).