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Wildfires in KyustendilКюстендил

Kyustendil, Bulgaria: 5 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 9 municipalities since 2016, burning 915 hectares inside the region. The largest was Nevestino in August 2024, with 217 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
915ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.3%
3,057 km²
fires
5
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 9
Largest fire
217ha
Nevestino · August 2024
Inhabitants
59,005
15.5 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 31 Very low 11° · 80 % · 13 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 9° · 96 % · 18 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 14° · 67 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 10° · 95 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 13° · 57 % · 37 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 12° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 11° · 53 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 13° · 42 % · 17 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Kyustendil 656 inhabitants 335 ha · 0.3 %
  2. Nevestino 1,636 inhabitants 217 ha · 0.5 %
  3. Dupnitsa 35,547 inhabitants 207 ha · 0.6 %
  4. Rila 2,248 inhabitants 157 ha · 0.4 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land27 %
  • Agricultural areas24 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland22 %
  • Coniferous forest20 %
  • Broadleaved forest4.8 %
  • Mixed forest2.0 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

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

Largest recorded fires

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

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20251157 Rila 157 ha
20242424 Nevestino 217 ha
20212335 Kyustendil 184 ha

All fires in Kyustendil · 5

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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