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Wildfires in Leinster

Leinster, Ireland: 10 fires with a page have entered 17 of its 82 local electoral areas since 2016, burning 1,970 hectares inside the region. The largest was Borris-in-Ossory-Mountmellick LEA-6 in July 2018, with 460 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.

These figures leave out 11 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
1,970ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.1%
19,780 km²
fires
10
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
17
of 82
Largest fire
460ha
Borris-in-Ossory-Mountmellick LEA-6 · July 2018
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Very low 14° · 73 % · 73 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 11° · 56 % · 70 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 16° · 83 % · 73 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 12° · 74 % · 58 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 15° · 72 % · 48 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 14° · 70 % · 50 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 15° · 78 % · 55 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 12° · 72 % · 38 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. Baltinglass LEA-6 1,081 ha · 1.2 %
  2. Firhouse-Bohernabreena LEA-5 665 ha · 12 %
  3. Borris-in-Ossory-Mountmellick LEA-6 395 ha · 0.4 %
  4. Muinebeag LEA-5 273 ha · 0.7 %
  5. Dundalk-Carlingford LEA-6 255 ha · 1.3 %
  6. Clane LEA-5 216 ha · 0.6 %
  7. Bray West LEA-4 201 ha · 1.7 %
  8. Wicklow LEA-6 190 ha · 0.4 %
  9. Trim LEA-6 183 ha · 0.4 %
  10. Kinnegad LEA-5 156 ha · 0.2 %
  11. Longford LEA-7 153 ha · 0.9 %
  12. Maynooth LEA-5 119 ha · 0.7 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land85 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland9.8 %
  • Broadleaved forest2.5 %
  • Coniferous forest2.0 %
  • Agricultural areas0.7 %

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
20263427 Bray West LEA-4 208 ha
20251161 Muinebeag LEA-5 161 ha
20222263 Firhouse-Bohernabreena LEA-5 151 ha
202051,060 Baltinglass LEA-6 359 ha
201961,293 Firhouse-Bohernabreena LEA-5 385 ha
20183831 Borris-in-Ossory-Mountmellick LEA-6 460 ha
20171123 Firhouse-Bohernabreena LEA-5 123 ha

All fires in Leinster · 21

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/Ordce Survey Ireland (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). 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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