Forest fire statistics for the years 1973 to 2006

Listed are the number of forest fires and the affected forest area per year, classified by cause.

Year	Carelessness		Natural phenomenona		Railway and power lines		Caused by the army		Other causes		Unknown causes		Total
	Number	ha	Number	ha	Number	ha	Number	ha	Number	ha	Number	ha	Number	ha
1973	149	1240	7	16	7	188	5	937	17	1621	70	911	255	4913
1974	98	133	8	12	6	121	3	1	8	74	26	66	149	407
1975	73	203	11	2	2	15	2	0	7	11	28	74	123	305
1976	199	2423	55	460	7	16	7	2	60	1034	62	899	390	4834
1977	20	19	4	1	-	-	-	-	1	0	14	67	39	87
1978	29	15	5	1	-	-	-	-	3	1	28	63	60	80
1979	33	25	7	3	5	169	3	1	4	2	49	381	101	581
1980	33	26	-	-	2	1	4	31	20	14	48	571	107	643
1981	29	33	2	0	5	173	2	1	53	400	62	1230	153	1837
1982	36	76	4	7	7	40	6	7	21	34	24	195	98	359
1983	28	12	6	33	3	4	8	6	20	4	41	405	106	464
1984	40	101	13	20	3	8	7	3	45	42	38	146	146	320
1985	45	29	-	-	2	1	24	130	28	4	17	48	116	213
1986	36	35	2	0	1	0	10	7	21	10	6	11	76	63
1987	32	60	4	4	2	0	1	0	25	226	6	22	70	312
1988	17	3	1	0	3	2	6	1	21	175	7	2	55	183
1989	40	60	13	1	1	0	6	9	61	80	29	63	150	213
1990	43	80	18	151	7	60	6	14	50	85	92	712	216	1102
1991	37	21	28	15	5	2	2	1	42	63	43	47	157	148
1992	39	20	9	2	3	1	2	0	31	5	27	24	111	52
1993	31	13	8	1	4	6	4	1	25	11	27	10	99	42
1994	14	94	17	3	1	0	-	-	12	187	8	9	52	293
1995	16	55	2	0	4	326	-	-	7	12	27	45	56	438
1996	17	12	4	0	1	0	-	-	15	68	24	153	61	233
1997	15	21	6	1	-	-	3	0	32	804	21	685	77	1511
1998	31	46	6	14	4	1	-	-	23	71	24	117	88	249
1999	12	4	1	0	5	0	-	-	3	3	10	2	31	9
2000	13	1	4	0	3	1	-	-	14	16	7	18	41	36
2001	15	33	1	0	3	1	-	-	15	2	5	1	39	37
2002	31	359	2	0	6	1	-	-	21	47	15	3	75	410
2003	51	25	50	101	11	2	1	0	40	12	36	424	189	564
2004	15	12	10	5	2	-	-	-	10	2	9	1	46	20
2005	45	15	13	1	-	-	-	-	22	26	17	6	97	47
2006	18	5	17	29	1	1	-	-	17	8	17	58	70	101

Source: FOEN, Forest Division