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Wildfires in Iskar Искър

Iskar, Bulgaria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 348 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Sat 24 Very low 18° · 47 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 16° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 15° · 67 % · 40 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 14° · 54 % · 37 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 12° · 93 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 55 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 15° · 61 % · 54 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 14° · 66 % · 32 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

348
hectares burned
1.7 %
of its area
2
fires
204
km²

How many times has Iskar burned?

Iskar has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2019. The most recent: Dolna Mitropoliya fire, September 2019, with 226 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
348
cumulative ha
21 Sept 2019
most recent

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 Iskar

  1. 226 ha Dolna Mitropoliya fire, September 2019 1.1% of the municipality · 287 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 122 ha Iskar fire, September 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 122 ha in total · 6 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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