Wildfires in Olt
Olt, Romania: 7 fires with a page have entered 21 of its 113 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,080 hectares inside the region. The largest was BRASTAVATU in October 2026, with 504 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.
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
- 1,080ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.2%
- 5,504 km²
- fires
- 7
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 21
- of 113
- Largest fire
- 504ha
- BRASTAVATU · October 2026
- Inhabitants
- 92,469
- 11.7 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 19° · 48 % · 26 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 17° · 43 % · 16 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 18° · 57 % · 22 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 16° · 58 % · 36 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 14° · 50 % · 30 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 8° · 84 % · 22 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 16° · 57 % · 22 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 16° · 62 % · 29 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- GARCOV 497 ha · 14 %
- GIUVARASTI 338 ha · 10 %
- GURA PADINII 130 ha · 2.4 %
- IZBICENI 116 ha · 2.3 %
- VADASTRITA 98 ha · 2.5 %
- CILIENI 84 ha · 1.5 %
- IANCA 70 ha · 0.7 %
- BRASTAVATU 70 ha · 1.0 %
- BUCINISU 42 ha · 1.5 %
- GRADINILE 42 ha · 1.5 %
- REDEA 42 ha · 0.3 %
- GROJDIBODU 14 ha · 0.2 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land64 %
- Agricultural areas28 %
- Broadleaved forest7.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 6×GIUVARASTI338 ha
- 4×GARCOV497 ha
- 2×IZBICENI116 ha
- 2×IANCA70 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 504 haBRASTAVATUOctober 2026 · provisional · not counted · 11 days
- 267 haGIUVARASTIAugust 2025 · 2 days of 302 ha in total
- 167 haGARCOVJune 2024 · 2 days
- 156 haISLAZFebruary 2020 · 4 days of 813 ha in total
- 140 haGARCOVJuly 2024 · 1 day
- 130 haGURA PADINIIOctober 2019 · 2 days
- 128 haIZBICENIAugust 2023 · 1 day
- 92 haISLAZAugust 2022 · 3 days of 531 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 574 | BRASTAVATU 504 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 267 | GIUVARASTI 267 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 307 | GARCOV 167 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 128 | IZBICENI 128 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 92 | ISLAZ 92 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 156 | ISLAZ 156 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 130 | GURA PADINII 130 ha |
All fires in Olt · 9
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 70 haBECHETOctober 2026 · provisional · not counted · 10 days
- 504 haBRASTAVATUOctober 2026 · provisional · not counted · 11 days
- 267 haGIUVARASTIAugust 2025 · 2 days of 302 ha in total
- 140 haGARCOVJuly 2024 · 1 day
- 167 haGARCOVJune 2024 · 2 days
- 128 haIZBICENIAugust 2023 · 1 day
- 92 haISLAZAugust 2022 · 3 days of 531 ha in total
- 156 haISLAZFebruary 2020 · 4 days of 813 ha in total
- 130 haGURA PADINIIOctober 2019 · 2 days
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).