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Wildfires in Rila Рила

Rila, Bulgaria, has had one fire with an official perimeter since 2025: 157 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 4 Very low 8° · 81 % · 19 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 6° · 92 % · 18 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 6° · 78 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 7° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 7° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 9° · 43 % · 21 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 11° · 63 % · 24 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 11° · 70 % · 19 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 Rila: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

157
hectares burned
0.4 %
of its area
1
fires
349
km²

How many times has Rila burned?

Rila has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2025. The most recent: Rila fire, September 2025, with 157 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
157
cumulative ha
9 Sept 2025
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 Rila

  1. 157 ha Rila fire, September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 156 ha in total · 5 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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