Overview
- Officials describe 2025 as an under‑average forest‑fire year in long‑term comparison.
- A blaze near Jütrichau from July 5 to 10 burned 49.18 hectares of forest, and the grain area lost was reported as many times larger.
- The reported totals exclude federal forest lands and non‑forest vegetation fires, so overall vegetation damage is higher than the forest‑only figures indicate.
- The highest warning level 5 was issued 80 times across 19 monitoring districts, fewer than in several recent years, with 20 days at level 5 recorded around Wittenberg.
- Authorities attribute the season’s elevated danger to a dry spring with low precipitation and high temperatures.