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Wildfires in Maramureș

Maramureș, Romania: 23 fires with a page have entered 19 of its 76 municipalities since 2016, burning 8,379 hectares inside the region. The largest was SIGHETU MARMATIEI in April 2020, with 1,459 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
8,379ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.3%
6,301 km²
fires
23
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
19
of 76
Largest fire
1,459ha
SIGHETU MARMATIEI · April 2020
Inhabitants
228,905
36.6 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 11° · 66 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 14° · 55 % · 14 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 15° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 8° · 78 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 6° · 90 % · 18 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 12° · 73 % · 16 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 12° · 70 % · 25 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 10° · 67 % · 24 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. SAPANTA 3,031 inhabitants 2,420 ha · 17 %
  2. IEUD 1,349 ha · 18 %
  3. SIGHETU MARMATIEI 32,793 inhabitants 1,210 ha · 8.8 %
  4. DESESTI 564 ha · 4.0 %
  5. OCNA SUGATAG 558 ha · 6.1 %
  6. BARSANA 392 ha · 5.4 %
  7. DRAGOMIRESTI 323 ha · 3.2 %
  8. BOTIZA 312 ha · 4.2 %
  9. GIULESTI 247 ha · 3.2 %
  10. RECEA 198 ha · 4.5 %
  11. BUDESTI 2,894 inhabitants 173 ha · 2.0 %
  12. BOGDAN VODA 139 ha · 4.1 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land53 %
  • Broadleaved forest27 %
  • Agricultural areas11 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland6.1 %
  • Mixed forest1.8 %
  • Coniferous forest0.7 %

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 SAPANTA 162 ha
20245925 SAPANTA 327 ha
202271,245 BARSANA 348 ha
202075,554 SIGHETU MARMATIEI 1,459 ha
20191280 SAPANTA 280 ha
20181110 BORSA 110 ha

All fires in Maramureș · 23

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).