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Wildfires in Sălaj

Sălaj, Romania: 8 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 61 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,951 hectares inside the region. The largest was BUCIUMI in March 2022, with 837 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.

hectares burned
1,951ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.5%
3,864 km²
fires
8
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 61
Largest fire
837ha
BUCIUMI · March 2022
Inhabitants
87,336
22.3 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 13° · 62 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 15° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 17° · 43 % · 20 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 13° · 74 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 12° · 62 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 12° · 61 % · 19 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 10° · 76 % · 22 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 8° · 64 % · 23 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. CUZAPLAC 679 ha · 6.3 %
  2. SIMISNA 833 inhabitants 437 ha · 9.5 %
  3. ALMASU 277 ha · 1.7 %
  4. BUCIUMI 238 ha · 2.5 %
  5. FILDU DE JOS 111 ha · 1.7 %
  6. ZIMBOR 59 ha · 0.8 %
  7. CIZER 55 ha · 0.8 %
  8. SAG 47 ha · 0.5 %
  9. SANMIHAIU ALMASULUI 40 ha · 0.6 %
  10. AGRIJ 1,397 inhabitants 7 ha · 0.2 %

What burns in the region

  • Broadleaved forest56 %
  • Agricultural areas33 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland11 %

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
20251102 SAG 102 ha
202271,849 BUCIUMI 837 ha

All fires in Sălaj · 8

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).