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Wildfires in Vâlcea

Vâlcea, Romania: 13 fires with a page have entered 16 of its 89 municipalities since 2016, burning 2,493 hectares inside the region. The largest was LOGRESTI in March 2022, with 475 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
2,493ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.4%
5,771 km²
fires
13
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
16
of 89
Largest fire
475ha
LOGRESTI · March 2022
Inhabitants
124,005
20.1 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 17° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 16° · 49 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 16° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 13° · 72 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 13° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 15° · 48 % · 21 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 57 % · 22 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. OTESANI 537 ha · 16 %
  2. GRADISTEA 398 ha · 8.3 %
  3. BERBESTI 379 ha · 7.1 %
  4. CERNISOARA 175 ha · 2.9 %
  5. BOISOARA 175 ha · 2.3 %
  6. CAINENI 142 ha · 0.6 %
  7. GUSOENI 114 ha · 3.1 %
  8. FARTATESTI 113 ha · 1.4 %
  9. ROSIILE 89 ha · 1.3 %
  10. TETOIU 83 ha · 1.3 %
  11. MALAIA 78 ha · 0.2 %
  12. LIVEZI 77 ha · 1.3 %

What burns in the region

  • Broadleaved forest59 %
  • Agricultural areas41 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.6 %

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
20261157 OTESANI 157 ha
20252451 CERNISOARA 277 ha
20243434 GUSOENI 149 ha
20231136 OTESANI 136 ha
202261,315 LOGRESTI 475 ha

All fires in Vâlcea · 13

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).