Wildfires in Alba
Alba, Romania: 31 fires with a page have entered 18 of its 78 municipalities since 2016, burning 6,972 hectares inside the region. The largest was GALDA DE JOS in February 2025, with 624 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).
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
- 6,972ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.1%
- 6,260 km²
- fires
- 31
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 18
- of 78
- Largest fire
- 624ha
- GALDA DE JOS · February 2025
- Inhabitants
- 303,268
- 23.0 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 13° · 63 % · 41 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 15° · 55 % · 20 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 17° · 45 % · 23 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 12° · 69 % · 39 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 11° · 58 % · 27 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 9° · 64 % · 21 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 12° · 64 % · 19 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 12° · 75 % · 26 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- CERU-BACAINTI 227 inhabitants 1,157 ha · 25 %
- SALCIUA 1,271 inhabitants 1,146 ha · 15 %
- UNIREA 4,497 inhabitants 685 ha · 6.9 %
- GALDA DE JOS 610 ha · 6.0 %
- INTREGALDE 459 inhabitants 545 ha · 6.6 %
- LUPSA 2,732 inhabitants 514 ha · 4.2 %
- OCOLIS 479 inhabitants 508 ha · 5.5 %
- BLAJ 17,816 inhabitants 490 ha · 5.0 %
- POSAGA 835 inhabitants 396 ha · 3.0 %
- MOGOS 647 inhabitants 245 ha · 2.4 %
- LIVEZILE 1,041 inhabitants 223 ha · 3.2 %
- PONOR 475 inhabitants 221 ha · 4.3 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land57 %
- Broadleaved forest27 %
- Agricultural areas15 %
- Mixed forest0.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 6×UNIREA685 ha
- 5×SALCIUA1,146 ha
- 5×INTREGALDE545 ha
- 3×CERU-BACAINTI1,157 ha
- 3×GALDA DE JOS610 ha
- 3×LUPSA514 ha
- 3×OCOLIS508 ha
- 3×POSAGA396 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 624 haGALDA DE JOSFebruary 2025 · 3 days
- 575 haCERU-BACAINTIMarch 2025 · 3 days
- 490 haBLAJMarch 2017 · 3 days
- 470 haCERU-BACAINTIFebruary 2025 · 2 days
- 404 haSALCIUAMarch 2025 · 2 days
- 362 haSALCIUAApril 2020 · 3 days
- 317 haSALCIUANovember 2018 · 2 days
- 317 haRAMETEAMarch 2022 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | 3,035 | GALDA DE JOS 624 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 237 | OCNA MURES 130 ha |
| 2022 | 12 | 1,913 | RAMETEA 317 ha |
| 2020 | 3 | 764 | SALCIUA 362 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 216 | OCOLIS 216 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 317 | SALCIUA 317 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 490 | BLAJ 490 ha |
All fires in Alba · 31
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 96 haIARAMarch 2025 · 1 day of 154 ha in total
- 404 haSALCIUAMarch 2025 · 2 days
- 252 haPOSAGAMarch 2025 · 3 days
- 167 haINTREGALDEMarch 2025 · 1 day
- 196 haOCOLISMarch 2025 · 2 days
- 0 haBUCES6 March 2025 · 2 days of 402 ha in total
- 244 haMOGOSMarch 2025 · 2 days
- 5 haBUCES5 March 2025 · 2 days of 273 ha in total
- 575 haCERU-BACAINTIMarch 2025 · 3 days
- 470 haCERU-BACAINTIFebruary 2025 · 2 days
- 624 haGALDA DE JOSFebruary 2025 · 3 days
- 107 haMOGOSApril 2024 · 2 days
- 130 haOCNA MURESFebruary 2024 · 1 day
- 104 haLUPSAMarch 2022 · 2 days
- 259 haGALDA DE JOSMarch 2022 · 3 days
- 119 haSALCIUA27 March 2022 · 3 days
- 106 haUNIREA27 March 2022 · 1 day of 199 ha in total
- 126 haMOGOSMarch 2022 · 4 days
- 317 haRAMETEAMarch 2022 · 1 day
- 196 haSALCIUA24 March 2022 · 1 day
- 206 haUNIREA24 March 2022 · 1 day
- 3 haMOLDOVENESTI18 March 2022 · 1 day of 103 ha in total
- 115 haCERU-BACAINTIMarch 2022 · 1 day
- 191 haUNIREA11 March 2022 · 1 day of 206 ha in total
- 172 haUNIREAFebruary 2022 · 1 day
- 115 haPOSAGAApril 2020 · 2 days
- 287 haLUPSAApril 2020 · 1 day
- 362 haSALCIUAApril 2020 · 3 days
- 216 haOCOLISApril 2019 · 2 days
- 317 haSALCIUANovember 2018 · 2 days
- 490 haBLAJMarch 2017 · 3 days
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/World Bank (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (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).