Wildfires in Switzerland
Situation over the last 30 days
7 fires detected in Switzerland over the last 30 days, totalling 886 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from October 9 at 02:17 PM.
Fires in Switzerland are mostly grass, heath or stubble fires, in spring before vegetation greens up and during summer droughts. Areas are modest, but dry years bring forest fires unusual for these latitudes.
- Emmenbrücke (CH)from September 17 at 02:27 PM to October 8 at 04:04 AM234 ha
- Gerlafingen (CH)from September 11 at 02:40 PM to September 19 at 04:04 AM195 ha
- Gerlafingen (CH)from September 23 at 02:50 AM to October 3 at 03:58 AM178 ha
- Le Lieu (CH)from October 5 at 01:06 PM to October 5 at 02:46 PM80 ha
- Laténa (CH)from September 12 at 03:32 AM to September 13 at 04:15 AM71 ha
- Emmenbrücke (CH)from September 11 at 01:55 PM to September 12 at 04:36 AM67 ha
- Gerlafingen (CH)from October 6 at 02:08 PM to October 9 at 02:17 PM61 ha
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These figures come from satellite thermal detection and are not an official tally: only the emergency services of the country concerned are authoritative. The detected footprint overstates the area actually burnt, a pixel counting whole (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) when only an edge burns. A freshly detected fire may not yet carry a place name and will then not appear in this list, though it is already on the map.
Learn more: what a forest fire is and how satellites detect it
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