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Wildfires in Giurgiu

Giurgiu, Romania: 3 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 54 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,087 hectares inside the region. The largest was Vedea in August 2023, with 804 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.

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
1,087ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.3%
3,547 km²
fires
3
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 54
Largest fire
804ha
Vedea · August 2023
Inhabitants
54,551
19.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Very low 14° · 71 % · 28 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 12° · 69 % · 27 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 91 % · 24 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 69 % · 14 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 59 % · 13 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 13° · 70 % · 41 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 11° · 80 % · 35 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 7° · 91 % · 33 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. Vedea 929 ha · 11 %
  2. Băneasa 112 ha · 1.0 %
  3. Găujani 96 ha · 1.2 %
  4. Comana 77 ha · 0.7 %
  5. Gostinu 70 ha · 1.4 %
  6. Gogoșari 42 ha · 0.3 %
  7. Călugăreni 27 ha · 0.2 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land54 %
  • Agricultural areas46 %

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
20262266 Oinacu 182 ha
20231804 Vedea 804 ha
20221104 Comana 104 ha
20191179 Vedea 179 ha

All fires in Giurgiu · 5

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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