Skip to content
worldfires
en
RO · Romania

Wildfires in Hunedoara

Hunedoara, Romania: 74 fires with a page have entered 35 of its 69 municipalities since 2016, burning 19,062 hectares inside the region. The largest was Vețel in 5 March 2025, with 1,379 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
19,062ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.7%
7,057 km²
fires
74
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
35
of 69
Largest fire
1,379ha
Vețel · 5 March 2025
Inhabitants
219,605
86.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 13 Very low 20° · 56 % · 49 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 10° · 46 % · 14 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 12° · 45 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 13° · 53 % · 18 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 14° · 50 % · 13 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 12° · 72 % · 60 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 16° · 70 % · 42 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 16° · 75 % · 38 km/h

Put this widget on your website

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. Vorța 3,200 ha · 31 %
  2. Sălașu de Sus 1,791 ha · 8.1 %
  3. Vețel 1,641 ha · 14 %
  4. Lelese 1,586 ha · 21 %
  5. Dobra 1,290 ha · 11 %
  6. Zam 1,100 ha · 6.7 %
  7. Lăpugiu de Jos 896 ha · 8.7 %
  8. Băița 825 ha · 7.4 %
  9. Ilia 813 ha · 8.9 %
  10. Buceș 1,595 inhabitants 669 ha · 5.5 %
  11. Vălișoara 581 ha · 17 %
  12. Vața de Jos 525 ha · 2.6 %

What burns in the region

  • Broadleaved forest53 %
  • Agricultural areas25 %
  • Other natural land16 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland4.9 %
  • Mixed forest1.2 %

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
20264769 Sălașu de Sus 249 ha
20253111,010 Vețel 1,379 ha
20244846 Lăpugiu de Jos 341 ha
2022234,169 Lelese 465 ha
20212216 Sălașu de Sus 112 ha
202091,868 Lăpugiu de Jos 390 ha
20191185 Sălașu de Sus 185 ha

All fires in Hunedoara · 74

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).

Tell me what burns here

New fires in this area by RSS: paste the link into your reader, no email needed.

Follow by RSS