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Wildfires in Vratsa Враца

Vratsa, Bulgaria, has had 2 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 505 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.7% 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 10° · 67 % · 37 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 10° · 60 % · 43 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 9° · 77 % · 21 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 13° · 71 % · 16 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 13° · 77 % · 40 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 11° · 87 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 11° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 12° · 53 % · 43 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

505
hectares burned
0.7 %
of its area
2
fires
674
km²

How many times has Vratsa burned?

Vratsa has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2022. The most recent: Vratsa fire, August 2022, with 379 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
505
cumulative ha
20 Aug 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 Vratsa

  1. 379 ha Vratsa fire, August 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 379 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 125 ha Vratsa fire, October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 125 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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