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Wildfires in Caraș-Severin

Caraș-Severin, Romania: 198 fires with a page have entered 60 of its 77 municipalities since 2016, burning 58,380 hectares inside the region. The largest was Lăpușnicel in 20 March 2022, with 2,704 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
58,380ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.9%
8,522 km²
fires
198
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
60
of 77
Largest fire
2,704ha
Lăpușnicel · 20 March 2022
Inhabitants
124,541
468.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 2 Very low 9° · 91 % · 36 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 10° · 75 % · 19 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 8° · 83 % · 22 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 8° · 74 % · 22 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 7° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 9° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 11° · 47 % · 22 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 7° · 72 % · 26 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. Lăpușnicel 771 inhabitants 7,913 ha · 1.1×
  2. Carașova 2,529 inhabitants 3,313 ha · 23 %
  3. Prigor 2,078 inhabitants 3,122 ha · 10 %
  4. Mehadia 3,512 inhabitants 3,012 ha · 15 %
  5. Mehadica 2,585 ha · 22 %
  6. Iablanița 1,880 inhabitants 2,391 ha · 20 %
  7. Reșița 58,393 inhabitants 2,217 ha · 11 %
  8. Ticvaniu Mare 1,844 inhabitants 1,706 ha · 14 %
  9. Băile Herculane 1,664 ha · 24 %
  10. Sichevița 1,659 ha · 13 %
  11. Topleț 2,246 inhabitants 1,621 ha · 17 %
  12. Fârliug 1,557 ha · 11 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas45 %
  • Broadleaved forest43 %
  • Other natural land6.0 %
  • Mixed forest3.2 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland2.3 %

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
2026247,127 Gârnic 717 ha
20254416,168 Lăpușnicel 1,895 ha
2024256,094 Lăpușnicel 1,081 ha
20231244 Carașova 244 ha
20224614,413 Lăpușnicel 2,704 ha
202171,201 Cornea 230 ha
2020184,024 Carașova 510 ha
2019237,103 Lăpușnicel 676 ha
20184778 Ticvaniu Mare 313 ha
201751,087 Sasca Montană 323 ha
20161140 Lăpușnicu Mare 140 ha

All fires in Caraș-Severin · 198

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).

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