Welcome to Hagfors!
Hagfors is a city in Värmland in Sweden, about 100 km north of Karlstad.
The community (including the rural areas around Hagfors) is spread across 1,833 km² and has a population of about 13,000.
Hagfors has a beautiful nature with a lot of water and plenty of forests. The landscape is characterized by larger and smaller lakes with rolling hills around. The iron industry has been and still is important for Hagfors. Tourism is growing and many activities are offered for visitors.
Hagfors is a locality and the seat of Hagfors Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 10,125 inhabitants in 2010. Its history is traced to 1873 when it was decided to build two blast furnaces at the location.
The town of Hagfors plays host to the Swedish Rally, a car rally, every February, which provides a significant annual economic windfall for the region.
Hagfors was one of the last places in Sweden to receive the formal title of a city when it was detached from Norra Råda in 1950. The designated coat of arms was a tribute to the furnaces. At that time the town had 6,501 inhabitants. Today it is the seat of the much larger Hagfors Municipality but is not an administrative entity of its own.