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Wildfires in Dolj

Dolj, Romania: 14 fires with a page have entered 31 of its 112 municipalities since 2016, burning 2,261 hectares inside the region. The largest was SILISTEA CRUCII in October 2026, with 532 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.

These figures leave out 7 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
2,261ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.3%
7,403 km²
fires
14
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
31
of 112
Largest fire
532ha
SILISTEA CRUCII · October 2026
Inhabitants
574,503
3.9 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 18° · 47 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 17° · 41 % · 17 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 18° · 55 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 16° · 47 % · 47 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 15° · 40 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 10° · 61 % · 19 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 17° · 51 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 16° · 56 % · 36 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. RAST 3,198 inhabitants 347 ha · 4.2 %
  2. MURGASI 2,191 inhabitants 335 ha · 3.4 %
  3. NEGOI 2,298 inhabitants 323 ha · 6.4 %
  4. TALPAS 1,049 inhabitants 247 ha · 6.4 %
  5. AFUMATI 2,646 inhabitants 238 ha · 3.4 %
  6. POIANA MARE 9,047 inhabitants 210 ha · 1.3 %
  7. CALAFAT 198 ha · 1.4 %
  8. FARCAS 2,047 inhabitants 196 ha · 4.1 %
  9. VALEA STANCIULUI 4,806 inhabitants 196 ha · 1.8 %
  10. GIURGITA 2,730 inhabitants 196 ha · 2.7 %
  11. GIGHERA 2,899 inhabitants 192 ha · 1.5 %
  12. CERAT 4,191 inhabitants 168 ha · 4.0 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas62 %
  • Broadleaved forest33 %
  • Other natural land5.5 %

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
202681,714 SILISTEA CRUCII 532 ha
20252253 CALAFAT 203 ha
20243480 MURGASI 337 ha
20223364 FARCAS 146 ha
20211101 MELINESTI 101 ha
20202647 NEGOI 491 ha
20191193 GIGHERA 193 ha
20181104 RAST 104 ha

All fires in Dolj · 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).