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Wildfires in LovechЛовеч

Lovech, Bulgaria: 54 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 8 municipalities since 2016, burning 12,137 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ugarchin in 15 September 2019, with 598 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
12,137ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.0%
4,069 km²
fires
54
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 8
Largest fire
598ha
Ugarchin · 15 September 2019
Inhabitants
48,984
247.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 30 Very low 11° · 86 % · 16 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 12° · 95 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 9° · 97 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 10° · 96 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 8° · 99 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 7° · 96 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 8° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 11° · 57 % · 28 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

  1. Ugarchin 4,942 inhabitants 6,043 ha · 9.5 %
  2. Lukovit 15,128 inhabitants 2,674 ha · 6.0 %
  3. Yablanitsa 5,419 inhabitants 2,155 ha · 11 %
  4. Teteven 16,945 inhabitants 919 ha · 1.4 %
  5. Troyan 413 inhabitants 218 ha · 0.3 %
  6. Lovech 122 inhabitants 127 ha · 0.1 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas47 %
  • Broadleaved forest24 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland23 %
  • Other natural land4.1 %
  • Mixed forest1.9 %

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
20262280 Ugarchin 156 ha
202581,897 Ugarchin 366 ha
202471,252 Ugarchin 379 ha
202361,754 Ugarchin 438 ha
2022143,616 Yablanitsa 460 ha
202161,083 Lukovit 300 ha
2019112,254 Ugarchin 598 ha

All fires in Lovech · 54

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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