Ede
General information
- Category
- Wildfire
- Fire classification
- Surface plume
- Country
- The Netherlands
- Year
- 2025
The Ede wildfire started due to military practice in the heatland with a smoke grenade. After showing only some backing fire behaviour for some time, the fire spotted accross the road and was able to make runs with the wind. The fire spotted on large distances for Dutch standards, allowing it to make two runs of 6 km/h. Attempts to stop the head of the fire proved unsuccesful and resulted in a fire truck burned, among others. The fire’s head stopped due to a discontinuity in fuel within the military base that it impacted. There was only one spotfire within the military base.
Fire behaviour and surface observations
| Start location lat | 52.060754 deg N |
| Start location lon | 5.715939 deg E |
| Start location name | Ede |
| Start hour | 03/04/2025 13:33:00 (UTC) |
| Surface affected | 65 ha |
| Fire behavior | Surface fire with torching, mid-high intensity |
| Torching head | % |
| Torching flanks | % |
| Flame length mean head | 3 m |
| Flame length max head | 15 m |
| Flame length mean flanks | 1.5 m |
| Flame length max flanks | 3 m |
| Spotting mean | 50 m |
| Spotting max | 250 m |
| Rate of spread mean | 1100 m/h |
| Rate of spread max | 6000 m/h |
| Burn ratio mean | 40 ha/h |
| Burn ratio max | 180 ha/h |
