Wildfires in Ulster
Ulster, Ireland: 3 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 13 local electoral areas since 2016, burning 953 hectares inside the region. The largest was Glenties LEA-6 in April 2019, with 729 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 2 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.
- hectares burned
- 953ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.1%
- 8,066 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 13
- Largest fire
- 729ha
- Glenties LEA-6 · April 2019
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 25 Very low 10° · 67 % · 91 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 14° · 89 % · 65 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 10° · 78 % · 71 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 13° · 78 % · 45 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 13° · 75 % · 50 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 12° · 67 % · 50 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 9° · 84 % · 34 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 10° · 65 % · 29 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Glenties LEA-6 729 ha · 0.6 %
- Carndonagh LEA-4 524 ha · 1.1 %
- Cavan-Belturbet LEA-6 265 ha · 0.4 %
- Donegal LEA-6 180 ha · 0.2 %
- Monaghan LEA-7 164 ha · 0.4 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land96 %
- Agricultural areas3.1 %
- Other land cover0.9 %
Largest recorded fires
- 729 haGlenties LEA-6April 2019 · probable burn · not counted · 4 days
- 524 haCarndonagh LEA-4May 2017 · 4 days
- 265 haCavan-Belturbet LEA-6May 2017 · 3 days
- 180 haDonegal LEA-6April 2025 · probable burn · not counted · 1 day
- 164 haMonaghan LEA-7May 2025 · 3 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 344 | Donegal LEA-6 180 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 729 | Glenties LEA-6 729 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 789 | Carndonagh LEA-4 524 ha |
All fires in Ulster · 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/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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