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Wildfires in Simitli Симитли

Simitli, Bulgaria, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 811 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.5% 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. Fri 23 Very low 13° · 55 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 14° · 47 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 14° · 62 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 12° · 72 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 9° · 44 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 7° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 11° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 9° · 73 % · 31 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

811
hectares burned
1.5 %
of its area
4
fires
528
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Simitli

  1. 95 ha Simitli fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 119 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 122 ha Simitli fire, August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 122 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 156 ha Simitli fire, October 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 170 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 438 ha Simitli fire, August 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,646 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).