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Wildfires in Lyubimets Любимец

Lyubimets, Bulgaria, has had 8 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 3,738 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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. Wed 28 Very low 15° · 63 % · 41 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 64 % · 38 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 61 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 14° · 85 % · 35 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 17° · 82 % · 49 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 15° · 87 % · 43 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 12° · 71 % · 40 km/h
  9. Thu 5 Very low 10° · 65 % · 25 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

3,738
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
8
fires
334
km²

How many times has Lyubimets burned?

Lyubimets has burned 8 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Harmanli fire, August 2025, with 1,194 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,738 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,483 hectares, 7.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
8
fires
6
years with fire
3,738
cumulative ha
2,483
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 Lyubimets

  1. 1,194 ha Harmanli fire, August 2025 3.6% of the municipality · 2,719 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 724 ha Harmanli fire, June 2024 2.2% of the municipality · 1,446 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 72 ha Svilengrad fire, August 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,374 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 57 ha Lyubimets fire, July 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 109 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 514 ha Lyubimets fire, 15 August 2022 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 512 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 152 ha Lyubimets fire, 9 August 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 263 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 317 ha Lyubimets fire, July 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 317 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 708 ha Lyubimets fire, August 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,168 ha in total · 3 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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