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Wildfires in BlagoevgradБлагоевград

Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria: 8 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 14 municipalities since 2016, burning 6,389 hectares inside the region. The largest was Strumyarni in July 2025, with 3,265 hectares inside the region. 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.

hectares burned: 6,389ha; Since 2016
Of the region: 1.0%; 6,511 km²
fires: 8; Since 2016
municipalities with fire: 5; of 14
Largest fire: 3,265ha; Strumyarni · July 2025
Inhabitants: 285,644; 22.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast

Mon 2 Very low 6° · 86 % · 23 km/h
Tue 3 Very low 3° · 95 % · 34 km/h
Wed 4 Very low 6° · 81 % · 18 km/h
Thu 5 Very low 3° · 97 % · 14 km/h
Fri 6 Very low 4° · 56 % · 21 km/h
Sat 7 Very low 4° · 50 % · 20 km/h
Sun 8 Very low 5° · 56 % · 18 km/h
Mon 9 Very low 2° · 73 % · 22 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

Kresna 4,201 inhabitants 2,586 ha · 7.6 %
Strumyarni 4,378 inhabitants 2,149 ha · 5.5 %
Simitli 12,457 inhabitants 811 ha · 1.5 %
Sandanski 34,243 inhabitants 805 ha · 0.8 %
Blagoevgrad 70,708 inhabitants 38 ha · 0.1 %

What burns in the region

Coniferous forest28 %
Mixed forest24 %
Other natural land18 %
Scrub and transitional woodland17 %
Agricultural areas11 %
Broadleaved forest1.1 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.

4×Simitli811 ha
3×Kresna2,586 ha
2×Strumyarni2,149 ha
2×Sandanski805 ha
2×Blagoevgrad38 ha

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Year	fires	hectares burned	Largest of the year
2025	2	3,384	Strumyarni 3,265 ha
2024	3	1,039	Strumyarni 751 ha
2019	1	170	Simitli 170 ha
2017	2	1,797	Simitli 1,648 ha

All fires in Blagoevgrad · 8

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

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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