Wildfires in the United Kingdom
Situation over the last 30 days
65 fires detected in the United Kingdom over the last 30 days, totalling 5,383 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from October 11 at 06:08 AM.
Fires in the United Kingdom 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.
- Scunthorpe (GB)from September 11 at 11:13 AM to October 11 at 06:08 AM609 ha
- Eggborough (GB)from September 16 at 03:17 AM to September 17 at 02:29 PM324 ha
- Eggborough (GB)from September 30 at 01:47 PM to September 30 at 09:38 PM252 ha
- Aberdeenshire (GB)from October 5 at 12:04 PM to October 5 at 04:10 PM237 ha
- South Killingholme (GB)from September 12 at 04:34 AM to October 11 at 06:08 AM191 ha
- New Forest (GB)from September 15 at 05:17 AM to September 25 at 04:47 AM146 ha
- Marton-cum-Grafton (GB)from September 20 at 09:42 PM to September 21 at 05:42 AM143 ha
- Glasgow (GB)from October 10 at 04:09 AM to October 10 at 06:25 AM142 ha
- West Suffolk (GB)from September 29 at 01:19 PM to September 29 at 01:19 PM116 ha
- Sheffield (GB)from September 16 at 03:20 AM to September 22 at 03:12 PM105 ha
- Aberdeenshire (GB)from October 6 at 02:12 PM to October 8 at 03:33 PM99 ha
- Grangemouth (GB)from September 24 at 04:09 AM to October 10 at 06:25 AM98 ha
- Rhoscrowther (GB)from October 1 at 03:37 AM to October 4 at 05:17 AM93 ha
- Vale de Glamorgan (GB)from September 22 at 04:04 AM to October 1 at 05:17 AM92 ha
- Folkestone and Hythe (GB)from September 25 at 02:34 PM to September 25 at 02:34 PM87 ha
- Aberdeenshire (GB)from September 26 at 01:21 PM to September 26 at 02:17 PM86 ha
- New Forest (GB)from October 1 at 04:15 AM to October 4 at 05:17 AM85 ha
- New Forest (GB)from October 8 at 03:07 AM to October 8 at 05:45 AM81 ha
- Epping Forest (GB)from September 21 at 01:49 PM to September 21 at 03:50 PM76 ha
- Vale of White Horse (GB)from September 30 at 02:42 PM to September 30 at 02:42 PM74 ha
- New Forest (GB)from September 12 at 02:54 AM to September 12 at 05:13 AM72 ha
- Carrickfergus (GB)from October 7 at 04:21 AM to October 10 at 04:45 AM71 ha
- Charnwood (GB)from September 22 at 02:36 PM to September 22 at 02:36 PM70 ha
- Rhoscrowther (GB)from October 8 at 03:05 AM to October 10 at 04:11 AM69 ha
- High Peak (GB)from September 22 at 03:05 AM to September 29 at 03:32 AM66 ha
- Scottish Borders (GB)from September 16 at 02:04 PM to September 16 at 02:49 PM65 ha
- Îles Shetland (GB)from October 1 at 03:34 AM to October 2 at 04:13 AM65 ha
- Ditton Priors (GB)from September 15 at 02:04 PM to September 16 at 05:36 AM62 ha
- Carrickfergus (GB)from September 15 at 04:34 AM to September 19 at 04:58 AM61 ha
- Aldgate (GB)from October 1 at 05:17 AM to October 11 at 04:45 AM59 ha
- Rhoscrowther (GB)from September 16 at 03:20 AM to September 18 at 04:21 AM59 ha
- St Fergus (GB)from September 16 at 05:34 AM to September 16 at 05:53 AM59 ha
- Rhoscrowther (GB)from September 12 at 03:30 AM to September 12 at 05:13 AM59 ha
- Cherwell (GB)from September 30 at 02:42 PM to September 30 at 02:42 PM58 ha
- South Cambridgeshire (GB)from September 25 at 02:36 PM to September 25 at 02:36 PM58 ha
- Swale (GB)from September 25 at 02:36 PM to September 25 at 02:36 PM58 ha
- Swale (GB)from September 25 at 02:36 PM to September 25 at 02:36 PM58 ha
- High Peak (GB)from October 8 at 03:43 AM to October 11 at 04:45 AM57 ha
- Vale de Glamorgan (GB)from October 8 at 04:47 AM to October 10 at 05:06 AM57 ha
- Wychavon (GB)from September 11 at 02:42 PM to September 11 at 02:42 PM56 ha
Other countries
- Spain
- Portugal
- Italy
- Greece
- Turkey
- Croatia
- Germany
- Ukraine
- Romania
- Bulgaria
- Serbia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Albania
- North Macedonia
- Montenegro
- Cyprus
- Switzerland
- Belgium
- Poland
- United States
- Canada
- Mexico
- Brazil
- Argentina
- Chile
- Bolivia
- Paraguay
- Colombia
- Peru
- Venezuela
- Australia
- Indonesia
- Philippines
- Thailand
- Myanmar
- Vietnam
- Cambodia
- Laos
- India
- Pakistan
- Nepal
- China
- Mongolia
- Kazakhstan
- Russia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Syria
- Algeria
- Tunisia
- Morocco
- Libya
- Egypt
- Sudan
- South Sudan
- Ethiopia
- Kenya
- Tanzania
- Mozambique
- Zimbabwe
- Zambia
- Angola
- South Africa
- Madagascar
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Central African Republic
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Nigeria
- Ghana
- Ivory Coast
- Mali
- Burkina Faso
- Senegal
- Guinea
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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