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Wildfires in Arad

Arad, Romania: 18 fires with a page have entered 15 of its 81 municipalities since 2016, burning 2,872 hectares inside the region. The largest was TARNOVA in March 2022, with 398 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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
2,872ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.4%
7,739 km²
fires
18
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
15
of 81
Largest fire
398ha
TARNOVA · March 2022
Inhabitants
149,290
19.2 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 13° · 54 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 17° · 31 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 16° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 13° · 52 % · 40 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 12° · 56 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 12° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 13° · 70 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 74 % · 32 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. TAUT 608 ha · 3.0 %
  2. PETRIS 543 ha · 4.2 %
  3. TARNOVA 379 ha · 1.8 %
  4. HASMAS 280 ha · 3.2 %
  5. GURAHONT 278 ha · 1.6 %
  6. SAVARSIN 216 ha · 1.0 %
  7. BARSA 196 ha · 3.8 %
  8. PAULIS 160 ha · 1.4 %
  9. USUSAU 108 ha · 0.8 %
  10. ALMAS 58 ha · 0.7 %
  11. BIRCHIS 23 ha · 0.2 %
  12. ZABRANI 10 ha · 0.1 %

What burns in the region

  • Broadleaved forest39 %
  • Agricultural areas38 %
  • Other natural land21 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland2.2 %

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
20261205 GURAHONT 205 ha
20257846 BARSA 198 ha
20243384 HASMAS 280 ha
20223716 TARNOVA 398 ha
20202447 TAUT 338 ha
20192275 PAULIS 170 ha

All fires in Arad · 18

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/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).