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Wildfires in Chiprovtsi Чипровци

Chiprovtsi, Bulgaria, has had 3 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 1,052 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

Only fires of 100 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 10 Very low 10° · 76 % · 22 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 15° · 63 % · 17 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 22° · 50 % · 40 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Low 24° · 34 % · 48 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 12° · 58 % · 41 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 7° · 77 % · 36 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 9° · 72 % · 18 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 10° · 93 % · 29 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Chiprovtsi: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,052
hectares burned
4.2 %
of its area
3
fires
252
km²

How many times has Chiprovtsi burned?

Chiprovtsi has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2019. The most recent: Chiprovtsi fire, October 2019, with 874 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,052 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 956 hectares, 3.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
1,052
cumulative ha
956
distinct ha

Fires larger than 100 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Bulgaria

Fires that entered Chiprovtsi

  1. 874 ha Chiprovtsi fire, October 2019 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 882 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 74 ha Chiprovtsi fire, March 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 162 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 104 ha Chiprovtsi fire, April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 104 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from EFFIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0) and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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