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Wildfire history

Where the Karst has burned, and how badly. Perimeters, burned area by year and cause — the evidence base that calibrates the index and the simulator.

Real registry data — the cross-border Karst wildfire registry reconciled from incident records and Copernicus/EFFIS burned-area products.
Recorded fires
Burned area · 2022
ha
worst season on record
Peak year
Leading cause
All fires 2022 events Large (>100 ha) Last 5 years

Notable fires

Burned area by year

hectares · cross-border Karst AOI


The summer 2022 fires — burning for days across the border near Trieste and the Slovenian Karst — were the catalyst for Karst Firewall 5.0 and remain the largest event in the record.


Karst wildfires in pictures