Wildfires in Cluj
Cluj, Romania: 17 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 81 municipalities since 2016, burning 3,066 hectares inside the region. The largest was Băișoara in 20 March 2022, with 728 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
- 3,066ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.5%
- 6,660 km²
- fires
- 17
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 11
- of 81
- Largest fire
- 728ha
- Băișoara · 20 March 2022
- Inhabitants
- 427,263
- 7.2 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 12° · 62 % · 39 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 13° · 56 % · 31 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 15° · 45 % · 21 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 11° · 58 % · 42 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 11° · 52 % · 22 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 11° · 48 % · 20 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 9° · 62 % · 24 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 6° · 93 % · 40 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Băișoara 1,288 ha · 12 %
- Iara 750 ha · 5.2 %
- Moldovenești 317 ha · 2.3 %
- Mărgău 202 ha · 1.0 %
- Căpușu Mare 181 ha · 1.3 %
- Poieni 127 ha · 0.7 %
- Călărași 1,883 inhabitants 110 ha · 2.9 %
- Aghireșu 48 ha · 0.5 %
- Ciurila 37 ha · 0.5 %
- Izvoru Crișului 7 ha · 0.2 %
- Ciucea 1,293 inhabitants 0 ha · 0.0 %
What burns in the region
- Agricultural areas43 %
- Other natural land32 %
- Broadleaved forest23 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland1.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
Largest recorded fires
- 728 haBăișoara20 March 2022 · 4 days
- 365 haBăișoara25 March 2022 · 3 days
- 312 haBăișoaraMarch 2025 · 2 days
- 202 haBăișoara6 February 2024 · 2 days
- 202 haMărgăuApril 2024 · 2 days
- 182 haCăpușu MareMarch 2026 · 1 day
- 144 haBăișoara24 March 2022 · 4 days
- 141 haBăișoara6 February 2024 · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 182 | Căpușu Mare 182 ha |
| 2025 | 2 | 370 | Băișoara 312 ha |
| 2024 | 4 | 669 | Băișoara 202 ha |
| 2022 | 10 | 1,846 | Băișoara 728 ha |
All fires in Cluj · 17
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 182 haCăpușu MareMarch 2026 · 1 day
- 58 haIaraMarch 2025 · 1 day of 154 ha in total
- 312 haBăișoaraMarch 2025 · 2 days
- 124 haIaraApril 2024 · 1 day
- 202 haMărgăuApril 2024 · 2 days
- 141 haBăișoara6 February 2024 · 1 day
- 202 haBăișoara6 February 2024 · 2 days
- 127 haPoieniMarch 2022 · 2 days
- 93 haUnirea27 March 2022 · 1 day of 199 ha in total
- 365 haBăișoara25 March 2022 · 3 days
- 144 haBăișoara24 March 2022 · 4 days
- 54 haAghireșuMarch 2022 · 2 days of 206 ha in total
- 728 haBăișoara20 March 2022 · 4 days
- 100 haMoldovenești18 March 2022 · 1 day
- 109 haCălărașiMarch 2022 · 1 day
- 15 haUnirea11 March 2022 · 1 day of 206 ha in total
- 109 haMoldovenești11 March 2022 · 1 day
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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