Wildfires in Gävleborgs län
Gävleborgs län, Sweden: 10 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 10 municipalities since 2016, burning 8,695 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ljusdal in 16 July 2018, with 3,738 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).
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
- 8,695ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.4%
- 19,682 km²
- fires
- 10
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 10
- Largest fire
- 3,738ha
- Ljusdal · 16 July 2018
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 4 Very low 10° · 67 % · 38 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 7° · 52 % · 36 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 5° · 76 % · 31 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 5° · 70 % · 23 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 4° · 66 % · 27 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 1° · 80 % · 37 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 3° · 84 % · 45 km/h
- Wed 11 Very low 1° · 91 % · 31 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
What burns in the region
- Coniferous forest76 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland18 %
- Other natural land5.0 %
- Mixed forest0.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 9×Ljusdal8,440 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 3,738 haLjusdal16 July 2018 · 10 days
- 2,844 haLjusdal14 July 2018 · 13 days
- 767 haLjusdal16 July 2018 · 5 days
- 311 haOvanåkerJuly 2018 · 3 days
- 226 haLjusdal18 July 2018 · 11 days
- 226 haLjusdal18 July 2018 · 11 days
- 223 haLjusdal20 July 2018 · 9 days
- 177 haLjusdal18 July 2018 · 11 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Gävleborgs län · 10
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 77 haHebyJune 2020 · 2 days
- 106 haLjusdal23 July 2018 · 6 days
- 223 haLjusdal20 July 2018 · 9 days
- 226 haLjusdal18 July 2018 · 11 days
- 226 haLjusdal18 July 2018 · 11 days
- 177 haLjusdal18 July 2018 · 11 days
- 311 haOvanåkerJuly 2018 · 3 days
- 767 haLjusdal16 July 2018 · 5 days
- 3,738 haLjusdal16 July 2018 · 10 days
- 2,844 haLjusdal14 July 2018 · 13 days
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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