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Wildfires in Bihor

Bihor, Romania: 21 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 101 municipalities since 2016, burning 3,818 hectares inside the region. The largest was CARPINET in 11 April 2020, with 482 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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
3,818ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.5%
7,538 km²
fires
21
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 101
Largest fire
482ha
CARPINET · 11 April 2020
Inhabitants
240,338
15.9 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 14° · 59 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 16° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 16° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 13° · 62 % · 31 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 12° · 56 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 60 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 14° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 67 % · 30 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. CARPINET 1,419 ha · 21 %
  2. PIETROASA 941 ha · 5.6 %
  3. VASCAU 355 ha · 5.5 %
  4. BUNTESTI 273 ha · 3.8 %
  5. LAZURI DE BEIUS 230 ha · 3.9 %
  6. BRATCA 4,554 inhabitants 159 ha · 1.2 %
  7. CRISTIORU DE JOS 158 ha · 1.5 %
  8. TARCAIA 131 ha · 1.7 %
  9. VADU CRISULUI 106 ha · 1.4 %
  10. RIENI 27 ha · 0.4 %
  11. LUNCA 10 ha · 0.1 %
  12. BULZ 9 ha · 0.1 %

What burns in the region

  • Broadleaved forest45 %
  • Agricultural areas34 %
  • Other natural land17 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland4.8 %

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
20262300 BRATCA 168 ha
20254812 CARPINET 309 ha
20242309 CARPINET 170 ha
20225762 PIETROASA 234 ha
20211216 CARPINET 216 ha
202061,317 CARPINET 482 ha
20191104 PIETROASA 104 ha

All fires in Bihor · 21

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).