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BG · Bulgaria · Vratsa · 4,632 inhabitants

Wildfires in Roman Роман

Roman, Bulgaria, has had 15 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 4,352 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% 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. Mon 26 Very low 12° · 60 % · 37 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 12° · 56 % · 40 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 10° · 87 % · 23 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 13° · 82 % · 16 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 85 % · 12 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 13° · 73 % · 33 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 13° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 7° · 67 % · 30 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

4,352
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
15
fires
318
km²

How many times has Roman burned?

Roman has burned 15 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Cherven Bryag fire, August 2026, with 161 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,352 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,302 hectares, 10 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
15
fires
8
years with fire
4,352
cumulative ha
3,302
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 Roman

  1. 161 ha Cherven Bryag fire, August 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 637 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 624 ha Roman fire, August 2024 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 624 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 703 ha Cherven Bryag fire, 16 July 2024 2.2% of the municipality · 2,625 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 200 ha Roman fire, February 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 199 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 314 ha Roman fire, 30 March 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 333 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 262 ha Roman fire, 29 March 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 263 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 238 ha Roman fire, 24 March 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 238 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 102 ha Roman fire, 28 September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 102 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 789 ha Roman fire, 16 September 2019 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 789 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 182 ha Cherven Bryag fire, 7 September 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 864 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 110 ha Roman fire, March 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 110 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 404 ha Roman fire, October 2018 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 404 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 25 ha Cherven Bryag fire, August 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 115 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 44 ha Roman fire, August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 166 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 194 ha Cherven Bryag fire, July 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 888 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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