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Wildfires in Mehedinți

Mehedinți, Romania: 94 fires with a page have entered 53 of its 67 municipalities since 2016, burning 22,880 hectares inside the region. The largest was Svinița in November 2024, with 1,380 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
22,880ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.6%
4,949 km²
fires
94
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
53
of 67
Largest fire
1,380ha
Svinița · November 2024
Inhabitants
91,010
251.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 31 Very low 11° · 85 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 10° · 86 % · 40 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 10° · 90 % · 39 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 10° · 89 % · 18 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 11° · 75 % · 46 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 10° · 66 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 13° · 64 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 12° · 67 % · 26 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Devesel 2,480 ha · 24 %
  2. Jiana 1,676 ha · 17 %
  3. Prunișor 1,305 ha · 11 %
  4. Șișești 1,273 ha · 17 %
  5. Eșelnița 2,639 inhabitants 933 ha · 5.2 %
  6. Hinova 894 ha · 13 %
  7. Orșova 8,506 inhabitants 874 ha · 18 %
  8. Gogoșu 867 ha · 7.1 %
  9. Svinița 852 ha · 8.2 %
  10. Căzănești 765 ha · 9.2 %
  11. Șovarna 727 ha · 19 %
  12. Izvoru Bârzii 726 ha · 11 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas53 %
  • Broadleaved forest37 %
  • Other natural land4.7 %
  • Mixed forest3.4 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland0.9 %

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
2026274,967 Băile Herculane 517 ha
2025173,806 Gogoșu 601 ha
2024204,802 Svinița 1,380 ha
2022173,857 Prunișor 591 ha
2021104,408 Devesel 1,300 ha
20202320 Șimian 166 ha
20192791 Izvoru Bârzii 493 ha
20181236 Gogoșu 236 ha

All fires in Mehedinți · 96

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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