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Wildfires in Rogaland

Rogaland, Norway: 24 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 24 municipalities since 2016, burning 5,607 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sokndal nor in 23 April 2019, with 774 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.

hectares burned
5,607ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.6%
9,323 km²
fires
24
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 24
Largest fire
774ha
Sokndal nor · 23 April 2019
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° · 71 % · 52 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 11° · 57 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 12° · 65 % · 55 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 10° · 84 % · 72 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 9° · 68 % · 57 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 13° · 84 % · 88 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 11° · 71 % · 65 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 10° · 66 % · 52 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. Sokndal nor 3,637 ha · 12 %
  2. Lund nor 794 ha · 1.9 %
  3. Bjerkreim nor 641 ha · 1.0 %
  4. Gjesdal nor 226 ha · 0.4 %
  5. Strand nor 145 ha · 0.7 %
  6. Hjelmeland nor 109 ha · 0.1 %
  7. Sandnes nor 56 ha · 0.2 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land91 %
  • Broadleaved forest4.6 %
  • Agricultural areas3.6 %
  • Coniferous forest0.6 %

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
20263375 Gjesdal nor 134 ha
202551,128 Bjerkreim nor 282 ha
20231100 Sokndal nor 100 ha
20226849 Sokndal nor 172 ha
20211245 Sokndal nor 245 ha
201982,910 Sokndal nor 774 ha

All fires in Rogaland · 24

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/Kartverket (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).