Wildfires in Selenge
Selenge, Mongolia: 16 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 17 districts since 2016, burning 64,731 hectares inside the region. The largest was Yero'o in 29 May 2018, with 9,126 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).
Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 64,731ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.5%
- 41,875 km²
- fires
- 16
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 17
- Largest fire
- 9,126ha
- Yero'o · 29 May 2018
- Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 0° · 52 % · 37 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low -0° · 50 % · 19 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low -1° · 45 % · 34 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low -3° · 48 % · 23 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 1° · 49 % · 41 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 1° · 51 % · 34 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 0° · 63 % · 41 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low -9° · 39 % · 32 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 9,126 haYero'o29 May 2018 · 7 days
- 8,957 haYero'o17 May 2018 · 9 days
- 6,965 haYero'oApril 2025 · 13 days
- 4,988 haMandal9 July 2017 · 8 days
- 4,987 haMandal11 July 2017 · 5 days
- 4,497 haMandal27 July 2017 · 14 days
- 4,185 haYero'o7 July 2017 · 9 days
- 3,667 haYero'o29 May 2018 · 4 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Selenge · 16
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 3,414 haXu'derJuly 2025 · 6 days
- 3,461 haYero'oMay 2025 · 7 days
- 6,965 haYero'oApril 2025 · 13 days
- 9,126 haYero'o29 May 2018 · 7 days
- 3,667 haYero'o29 May 2018 · 4 days
- 8,957 haYero'o17 May 2018 · 9 days
- 4,497 haMandal27 July 2017 · 14 days
- 2,242 haMandal27 July 2017 · 7 days
- 4,987 haMandal11 July 2017 · 5 days
- 4,988 haMandal9 July 2017 · 8 days
- 475 haBatsu'mber9 July 2017 · 8 days of 7,025 ha in total
- 1,648 haBatsu'mber8 July 2017 · 8 days of 3,810 ha in total
- 4,185 haYero'o7 July 2017 · 9 days
- 2,827 haYero'o7 July 2017 · 9 days
- 2,599 haYero'o5 July 2017 · 11 days
- 690 haErdeneMay 2017 · 2 days of 2,473 ha in total
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).