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Wildfires in Maramureș

County of Romania

Wildfires in Maramureș

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 UTC

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Fire history, 2012–2025

Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 948 km² of Maramureș at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 98 km², ranking 27th of 42 regions of Romania.

98 km²detected in an average year
2020busiest year, 287 km²
2023quietest year, 12 km²
Marchpeak month, 42% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 125 km2'122013: 83 km2'132014: 84 km2'142015: 82 km2'152016: 35 km2'162017: 91 km2'172018: 63 km2'182019: 119 km2'192020: 287 km2'202021: 38 km2'212022: 226 km2'222023: 12 km2'232024: 67 km2'242025: 57 km2'25287 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2020, with 287 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 12 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 0.1%JFebruary: 2.5%FMarch: 42%MApril: 35%AMay: 3.0%MJune: 1.1%JJuly: 1.3%JAugust: 7.1%ASeptember: 2.5%SOctober: 3.5%ONovember: 1.7%NDecember: 0.3%D42%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

March, April and May together hold 80% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 6 April 2020, with detections in 49 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 948 km² with at least one detection, 10% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year67171%
2 years18419%
3 to 5 years889.3%
6 to 10 years4.90.5%
11 years or more0.00.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 47.75, 23.75 and holds 35% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012125172
201383112
201484101
201582103
20163542
201791118
20186380
2019119152
2020287403
20213848
2022226287
20231215
20246788
20255770

Other regions of Romania

Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.

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