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Wildfires in Gorj

Gorj, Romania: 58 fires with a page have entered 38 of its 70 municipalities since 2016, burning 17,948 hectares inside the region. The largest was LOGRESTI in March 2022, with 1,957 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
17,948ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.2%
5,588 km²
fires
58
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
38
of 70
Largest fire
1,957ha
LOGRESTI · March 2022
Inhabitants
283,094
63.4 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 19° · 37 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 17° · 47 % · 13 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 18° · 47 % · 14 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 15° · 64 % · 15 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 15° · 37 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 17° · 42 % · 15 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 17° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 18° · 46 % · 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. BERLESTI 1,869 inhabitants 2,437 ha · 42 %
  2. STEJARI 2,205 inhabitants 2,400 ha · 32 %
  3. DANCIULESTI 1,997 inhabitants 1,621 ha · 27 %
  4. LICURICI 1,976 inhabitants 1,579 ha · 27 %
  5. JUPANESTI 1,854 inhabitants 1,385 ha · 24 %
  6. LOGRESTI 2,341 inhabitants 1,015 ha · 15 %
  7. CRUSET 3,048 inhabitants 1,002 ha · 12 %
  8. ANINOASA 688 ha · 7.5 %
  9. CAPRENI 1,970 inhabitants 584 ha · 10 %
  10. HUREZANI 1,549 inhabitants 528 ha · 14 %
  11. TARGU CARBUNESTI 7,616 inhabitants 506 ha · 3.9 %
  12. NEGOMIR 3,370 inhabitants 501 ha · 9.3 %

What burns in the region

  • Broadleaved forest62 %
  • Agricultural areas35 %
  • Artificial surfaces2.1 %

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
20261184 VAGIULESTI 184 ha
2025111,698 JUPANESTI 304 ha
2024173,027 STEJARI 419 ha
20222712,627 LOGRESTI 1,957 ha
20212411 NEGOMIR 292 ha

All fires in Gorj · 58

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).