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Wildfires in Pleven Плевен

Pleven, Bulgaria, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2019: 590 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Mon 26 Very low 13° · 68 % · 40 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 13° · 56 % · 37 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 10° · 95 % · 26 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 12° · 87 % · 19 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 14° · 75 % · 16 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 13° · 82 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 10° · 65 % · 30 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 7° · 90 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

590
hectares burned
0.8 %
of its area
4
fires
754
km²

How many times has Pleven burned?

Pleven has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Pleven fire, 13 August 2024, with 125 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 590 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 511 hectares, 0.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
590
cumulative ha
511
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 Pleven

  1. 125 ha Pleven fire, 13 August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 125 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 260 ha Pleven fire, 2 August 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 259 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 101 ha Pleven fire, July 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 101 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 104 ha Pleven fire, September 2019 where it started 0.1% 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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