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Wildfires in Dalarnas län

Dalarnas län, Sweden: 7 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 15 municipalities since 2016, burning 4,410 hectares inside the region. The largest was Älvdalen in 15 July 2018, with 2,164 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
4,410ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.1%
30,535 km²
fires
7
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 15
Largest fire
2,164ha
Älvdalen · 15 July 2018
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Very low 8° · 98 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 8° · 95 % · 54 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 9° · 88 % · 42 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 10° · 82 % · 46 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 10° · 65 % · 39 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 10° · 62 % · 46 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 9° · 64 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 5° · 83 % · 18 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Älvdalen 3,606 ha · 0.5 %
  2. Malung-Sälen 527 ha · 0.1 %
  3. Rättvik 272 ha · 0.1 %
  4. Avesta 4 ha · 0.0 %

What burns in the region

  • Coniferous forest58 %
  • Other natural land31 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland9.9 %
  • Other land cover1.3 %

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
20211122 Rättvik 122 ha
202014 Heby 4 ha
201854,283 Älvdalen 2,164 ha

All fires in Dalarnas län · 7

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/geoBoundaries, Erik Frohne (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License). 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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