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Wildfires in Tulcea

Tulcea, Romania: 6 fires with a page have entered 18 of its 51 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,228 hectares inside the region. The largest was SFANTU GHEORGHE in January 2025, with 10,849 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 421 burns that were probably not wildfires (agricultural, pasture, reed-bed or prescribed). They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
1,228ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.1%
8,492 km²
fires
6
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
18
of 51
Largest fire
10,849ha
SFANTU GHEORGHE · January 2025
Inhabitants
191,372
6.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Very low 19° · 69 % · 52 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 16° · 78 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 17° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 18° · 55 % · 14 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 53 % · 28 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Low 14° · 50 % · 44 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Low 13° · 49 % · 39 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Low 16° · 48 % · 28 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. SFANTU GHEORGHE 639 inhabitants 122,497 ha · 2.0×
  2. SULINA 3,118 inhabitants 64,656 ha · 2.0×
  3. CRISAN 1,092 inhabitants 39,264 ha · 1.0×
  4. C.A. ROSETTI 636 inhabitants 33,674 ha · 1.3×
  5. MURIGHIOL 2,959 inhabitants 26,526 ha · 33 %
  6. CHILIA VECHE 1,728 inhabitants 23,988 ha · 45 %
  7. PARDINA 489 inhabitants 3,946 ha · 13 %
  8. MALIUC 813 inhabitants 2,941 ha · 11 %
  9. JURILOVCA 3,694 inhabitants 2,288 ha · 7.6 %
  10. SOMOVA 4,878 inhabitants 2,180 ha · 15 %
  11. CEAMURLIA DE JOS 3,155 inhabitants 1,486 ha · 9.3 %
  12. TULCEA 65,624 inhabitants 1,131 ha · 5.7 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land97 %
  • Agricultural areas1.5 %
  • Other land cover0.8 %
  • Broadleaved 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
202655,646 SFANTU GHEORGHE 3,170 ha
20258173,368 SFANTU GHEORGHE 10,849 ha
202443,118 C.A. ROSETTI 1,531 ha
20232113,229 SFANTU GHEORGHE 3,637 ha
20229680,131 SFANTU GHEORGHE 9,389 ha
20211010,819 SFANTU GHEORGHE 5,412 ha
202010552,759 C.A. ROSETTI 3,325 ha
20196255,833 SFANTU GHEORGHE 10,391 ha
20181134 SULINA 134 ha
20173427,385 SFANTU GHEORGHE 4,321 ha
201683,788 SFANTU GHEORGHE 1,444 ha

All fires in Tulcea · 427

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).