Forest fires in Sweden 2018

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Temperature anomaly in July 2018

The forest fires in Sweden in 2018 were the worst in more than 100 years. As of July 2018, they covered an area of ​​30,000 hectares. The fires are considered to be the most threatening fires in Sweden's modern times .

The temperatures in Scandinavia in July 2018 were ten  degrees Celsius higher than the average. In the months of May to July only 13 mm of rain fell in Sweden. In mid-July 2018, Trondheim Airport , Norway , recorded 32.4 degrees Celsius and Snåsa , also in Norway, recorded 31.6 degrees Celsius, the highest values ​​since records began.

MODIS Terra satellite image of the forest fire region near Ljusdal from July 17, 2018

On July 26, 2018, there were 20 fires at the same time, some of them north of the Arctic Circle . Ljusdal in the province of Gävleborgs was one of the severely affected municipalities . The fires in the provinces of Gävleborgs län, Jämtlands län and Dalarnas län were considered so large that they could not be extinguished and should only be brought under control.

Fire brigades from Lower Saxony supported the fire fighting with 52 men and eleven vehicles, five of which were fire engines. In addition, Polish and French forces were on site. Two fire fighting planes were dispatched from Italy.

A fire in the municipality of Älvdalen in Dalarnas County broke out at a military training area with undetonated ammunition. A fighter plane dropped a GPS and laser-guided bomb from an altitude of 3000 meters to extinguish the fire within a radius of 100 meters.

The fires in the area around Östersund were from the All clearly visible.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unusually early forest fires . In: Tagesschau.de , April 24, 2019. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
  2. ^ A b Annette Langer: Forest fires in Sweden: This is the situation on site. In: Spiegel Online . July 26, 2018, accessed May 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ What you need to know about Sweden's historic wildfire outbreak. In: thelocal.se. July 17, 2018, accessed May 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Jason Samenow: Norway, Sweden, Finland experience record-breaking heat. In: smh.com.au. July 18, 2018, accessed May 2, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b French soldiers land in Sweden to battle wildfire inferno. In: thelocal.se. July 23, 2018, accessed May 2, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Umair Irfan: Wildfires have ignited inside the Arctic Circle. In: vox.com. July 24, 2018, accessed May 2, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Sweden uses Gripen against forest fires. In: 20min.ch. July 26, 2018, accessed May 2, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Bombs against forest fires: Swedish Air Force shows pictures from the cockpit. In: Spiegel Online Video. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Fire from drought: Fires in Sweden can be seen from space. In: Spiegel Online . July 23, 2018, accessed October 7, 2018 .