Wildfires in Prahova
Prahova, Romania: 10 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 104 municipalities since 2016, burning 2,790 hectares inside the region. The largest was Lipănești in September 2024, with 677 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
- 2,790ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.6%
- 4,697 km²
- fires
- 10
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 11
- of 104
- Largest fire
- 677ha
- Lipănești · September 2024
- Inhabitants
- 180,539
- 15.5 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 27 Very low 9° · 73 % · 50 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 14° · 67 % · 50 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 13° · 74 % · 18 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 13° · 76 % · 10 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 9° · 92 % · 21 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 9° · 74 % · 30 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 11° · 60 % · 53 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 10° · 62 % · 54 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Podenii Noi 686 ha · 18 %
- Apostolache 515 ha · 25 %
- Chiojdeanca 473 ha · 15 %
- Lipănești 448 ha · 25 %
- Jugureni 368 ha · 14 %
- Măgurele 140 ha · 5.3 %
- Dumbrăvești 64 ha · 2.2 %
- Șoimari 49 ha · 1.3 %
- Boldești-Scăeni 25 ha · 0.7 %
- Călugăreni 22 ha · 1.1 %
- Sângeru 1 ha · 0.0 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land45 %
- Agricultural areas38 %
- Broadleaved forest13 %
- Artificial surfaces3.2 %
- Other land cover1.3 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 7×Apostolache515 ha
- 5×Chiojdeanca473 ha
- 4×Podenii Noi686 ha
- 3×Șoimari49 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 677 haLipăneștiSeptember 2024 · 1 day
- 392 haȘoimariFebruary 2024 · 2 days
- 390 haCălugăreniMarch 2022 · 4 days
- 318 haApostolacheMarch 2022 · 1 day
- 310 haPodenii NoiFebruary 2021 · 1 day
- 205 haPodenii NoiJanuary 2022 · 1 day
- 159 haChiojdeancaMarch 2023 · 1 day
- 127 haPodenii NoiFebruary 2019 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | 1,069 | Lipănești 677 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 159 | Chiojdeanca 159 ha |
| 2022 | 4 | 1,016 | Călugăreni 390 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 310 | Podenii Noi 310 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 235 | Podenii Noi 127 ha |
All fires in Prahova · 10
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 677 haLipăneștiSeptember 2024 · 1 day
- 392 haȘoimariFebruary 2024 · 2 days
- 159 haChiojdeancaMarch 2023 · 1 day
- 390 haCălugăreniMarch 2022 · 4 days
- 103 haChiojdeancaMarch 2022 · 3 days
- 318 haApostolacheMarch 2022 · 1 day
- 205 haPodenii NoiJanuary 2022 · 1 day
- 310 haPodenii NoiFebruary 2021 · 1 day
- 108 haApostolacheMarch 2019 · 1 day
- 127 haPodenii NoiFebruary 2019 · 1 day
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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