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Wildfires in Varshets Вършец

Varshets, Bulgaria, has had 4 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 826 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.3% 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. Mon 2 Very low 8° · 95 % · 15 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 7° · 95 % · 13 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 7° · 95 % · 12 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 8° · 87 % · 16 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 10° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 10° · 62 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 10° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 8° · 80 % · 22 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

826
hectares burned
3.3 %
of its area
4
fires
249
km²

How many times has Varshets burned?

Varshets has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2019 and 2022. The most recent: Varshets fire, March 2022, with 266 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
826
cumulative ha
30 Mar 2022
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 Varshets

  1. 266 ha Varshets fire, March 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 266 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 263 ha Varshets fire, March 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 263 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 165 ha Varshets fire, October 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 496 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 131 ha Varshets fire, March 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 131 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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