Controlled burn

Controlled burn - a fire set intentionally for purposes of forest or land management, farming, prairie restoration or greenhouse gas abatement. Article “Controlled burn” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Controlled burn”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 601 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3353 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #696 in April 2015
• Global: #22118 in March 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #24072 in December 2019
• Global: #54202 in January 2020

There are 24 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Controlled burn		92.3428
2	Japanese (ja) 野焼き		91.4154
3	Indonesian (id) Pembakaran terkendali		64.3777
4	Russian (ru) Встречный пал		41.1793
5	Chinese (zh) 策略燒除		38.9203
6	Catalan (ca) Crema controlada		38.6202
7	German (de) Kontrolliertes Abbrennen		38.1962
8	French (fr) Écobuage		31.2689
9	Greek (el) Αντιπύρ		25.638
10	Italian (it) Fuoco prescritto		25.169

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Controlled burn" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Controlled burn		1 536 345
2	Japanese (ja) 野焼き		686 000
3	French (fr) Écobuage		339 671
4	Russian (ru) Встречный пал		180 767
5	Spanish (es) Quema prescrita		92 143
6	Finnish (fi) Kulotus		59 320
7	German (de) Kontrolliertes Abbrennen		55 480
8	Czech (cs) Vypalování porostů		21 502
9	Swedish (sv) Naturvårdsbränning		17 954
10	Italian (it) Fuoco prescritto		14 563

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Controlled burn" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Controlled burn		3 589
2	Japanese (ja) 野焼き		1 075
3	French (fr) Écobuage		795
4	Russian (ru) Встречный пал		375
5	Finnish (fi) Kulotus		188
6	German (de) Kontrolliertes Abbrennen		186
7	Chinese (zh) 策略燒除		121
8	Spanish (es) Quema prescrita		58
9	Italian (it) Fuoco prescritto		51
10	Czech (cs) Vypalování porostů		35

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Controlled burn" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Controlled burn		275
2	French (fr) Écobuage		74
3	Japanese (ja) 野焼き		46
4	German (de) Kontrolliertes Abbrennen		33
5	Czech (cs) Vypalování porostů		29
6	Italian (it) Fuoco prescritto		23
7	Finnish (fi) Kulotus		18
8	Russian (ru) Встречный пал		18
9	Spanish (es) Quema prescrita		15
10	Swedish (sv) Naturvårdsbränning		11

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Controlled burn" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 野焼き		2
2	Catalan (ca) Crema controlada		1
3	Dutch (nl) Beheerbranden		1
4	Arabic (ar) حرق محكوم		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Контролиран пожар		0
6	Czech (cs) Vypalování porostů		0
7	German (de) Kontrolliertes Abbrennen		0
8	Greek (el) Αντιπύρ		0
9	English (en) Controlled burn		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Fajra senveprigo		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Controlled burn" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Écobuage		1 092
2	English (en) Controlled burn		1 052
3	Japanese (ja) 野焼き		487
4	Dutch (nl) Beheerbranden		146
5	Persian (fa) آتش‌سوزی مصنوعی مهارشده		120
6	Swedish (sv) Naturvårdsbränning		119
7	Indonesian (id) Pembakaran terkendali		60
8	Arabic (ar) حرق محكوم		41
9	Spanish (es) Quema prescrita		30
10	Finnish (fi) Kulotus		29

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حرق محكوم
bg	Bulgarian Контролиран пожар
ca	Catalan Crema controlada
cs	Czech Vypalování porostů
de	German Kontrolliertes Abbrennen
el	Greek Αντιπύρ
en	English Controlled burn
eo	Esperanto Fajra senveprigo
es	Spanish Quema prescrita
fa	Persian آتش‌سوزی مصنوعی مهارشده
fi	Finnish Kulotus
fr	French Écobuage
id	Indonesian Pembakaran terkendali
it	Italian Fuoco prescritto
ja	Japanese 野焼き
ko	Korean 맞불
nl	Dutch Beheerbranden
pt	Portuguese Fogo controlado
ru	Russian Встречный пал
simple	Simple English Controlled burn
sr	Serbian Контролисано спаљивање
sv	Swedish Naturvårdsbränning
tr	Turkish Kontrollü yakma
zh	Chinese 策略燒除

Best Rank

Simple English: #24072 12.2019

Global: #54202 01.2020

Best Rank

Simple English: #696 04.2015

Global: #22118 03.2022

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