Skip to content
worldfires
IE · Ireland

Wildfires in Munster

Munster, Ireland: 5 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 44 local electoral areas since 2016, burning 3,531 hectares inside the region. The largest was KILLARNEY LEA-7 in April 2021, with 1,795 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 20 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
3,531ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.1%
24,067 km²
fires
5
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 44
Largest fire
1,795ha
KILLARNEY LEA-7 · April 2021
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 10° · 61 % · 78 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 15° · 71 % · 75 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 11° · 62 % · 64 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 16° · 84 % · 82 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 14° · 66 % · 79 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 14° · 76 % · 50 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 14° · 80 % · 55 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 13° · 82 % · 58 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. KENMARE LEA-6 2,526 ha · 1.4 %
  2. KILLARNEY LEA-7 1,919 ha · 3.3 %
  3. CLONMEL LEA-6 1,024 ha · 4.1 %
  4. CORCA DHUIBHNE LEA-3 800 ha · 1.2 %
  5. CARRICK-ON-SUIR LEA-5 424 ha · 0.7 %
  6. KILRUSH LEA-5 301 ha · 0.3 %
  7. PORTLAW-KILMACTHOMAS LEA-5 230 ha · 0.3 %
  8. CASTLEISLAND LEA-4 114 ha · 0.2 %
  9. LISTOWEL LEA-6 109 ha · 0.1 %
  10. MACROOM LEA-6 93 ha · 0.1 %
  11. KILLALOE LEA-5 84 ha · 0.1 %
  12. DUNGARVAN LEA-6 27 ha · 0.1 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land94 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland3.3 %
  • Coniferous forest1.4 %
  • 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
202621,559 CLONMEL LEA-6 1,447 ha
202551,376 KENMARE LEA-6 805 ha
202361,100 KENMARE LEA-6 392 ha
20224637 KENMARE LEA-6 282 ha
202132,125 KILLARNEY LEA-7 1,795 ha
20202403 CORCA DHUIBHNE LEA-3 264 ha
20183452 KILLARNEY LEA-7 237 ha

All fires in Munster · 25

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).