N.Ireland
The cost of farm fires in NI were up by 42% in 2024, with an estimated total of £7.3m in fire damages being reported by farmers to NFU Mutual
Approximately 450 pigs have died as result of a fire that broke out on a farm in Newtownstewart, Co. Tyrone on Sunday, November 9, 2025.
More than 30 firefighters attended the scene of a large fire involving around 300 tonnes of straw, which had broken out at a barn in the UK.
Police in Co. Tyrone are appealing for witnesses after a tractor was set on fire in what is believed to be arson.
Rural Life
Firefighters were called to 144 fires in agricultural buildings in 2024, according to data from fire services throughout the country.
Enquiries are ongoing into the cause of a fire in a field of straw bales in south Co....
Fire crews were alerted to a serious machinery fire, involving a combine harvester in the Suffolk...
Devon & Cornwall Police Rural Affairs Team in the UK have issued an appeal for information after discovering the remains of a hedgehog.
A pensioner has died in a house fire at a rural location in Co. Tipperary. An Garda Síochana...
News
Firefighters attended a large fire at Wigsley Old Airfield, a former Royal Airforce (RAF) base, in Nottinghamshire.
The elderly man who died in a house fire in Co. Westmeath yesterday is understood to have come from a farming background.
A Fine Gael senator has raised incidents of gorse fires in Roscommon in the Seanad this week and...
Units from Ennistymon Fire & Rescue Service in Clare have been deployed again this afternoon after reports that a gorse fire has reignited.
A status orange high fire risk warning is in place across the May Bank Holiday Weekend due to current dry weather patterns.
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has issued a ‘Condition Orange’ forest fire warning for the coming days.
A family in Louth voluntarily left it's home after a gorse fire came "extremely close" to their house, Cllr Fiona Mhic Conchoille said.
Conservation rangers at Killarney National Park have issued a "stern message" to the public following "another devastating fire" in the park.
The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) has confirmed that over 50 firefighters are now battling a fire on the Mourne Mountains.
Kerry Fire Service is still in attendance at a gorse fire in south Kerry which at one stage placed houses and a local school at risk.
Last weekend, April 2025, several sites around Wild Nephin national park, Co. Mayo were affected by "major fire incidents".
Environment
The public have been called on to be aware of the fire risk in rural areas after a fire on a "pristine" bog in Co. Westmeath.
DAERA, Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service (NIFRS) and PSNI have asked the public to be extra vigilant for wildfires in rural areas
Wicklow County Council will support Ireland’s first EU MODEX Exercise in Co. Wicklow where the team will simulate a wildfire to test their preparedness.
