Wildfires in PazardzhikПазарджик
Pazardzhik, Bulgaria: 11 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 11 municipalities since 2016, burning 2,882 hectares inside the region. The largest was Panagyurishte in August 2022, with 833 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).
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
- 2,882ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.7%
- 4,228 km²
- fires
- 11
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 11
- Largest fire
- 833ha
- Panagyurishte · August 2022
- Inhabitants
- 216,484
- 13.3 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 27 Low 14° · 39 % · 44 km/h
- Wed 28 Low 15° · 54 % · 32 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 16° · 60 % · 33 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 16° · 64 % · 19 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 15° · 69 % · 24 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 13° · 68 % · 40 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 13° · 82 % · 48 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 12° · 91 % · 37 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Panagyurishte 20,690 inhabitants 833 ha · 1.5 %
- Septemvri 20,684 inhabitants 690 ha · 2.2 %
- Lesichovo 4,625 inhabitants 472 ha · 2.4 %
- Strelcha 4,131 inhabitants 453 ha · 2.2 %
- Pazardzhik 87,766 inhabitants 354 ha · 0.6 %
- Bratsigovo 6,985 inhabitants 80 ha · 0.3 %
What burns in the region
- Agricultural areas49 %
- Other natural land23 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland10 %
- Coniferous forest7.4 %
- Broadleaved forest7.0 %
- Mixed forest3.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 4×Lesichovo472 ha
- 4×Pazardzhik354 ha
- 3×Septemvri690 ha
- 3×Strelcha453 ha
- 2×Bratsigovo80 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 833 haPanagyurishte ПанагюрищеAugust 2022 · 1 day
- 473 haSeptemvri СептемвриJuly 2023 · 2 days
- 424 haPazardzhik ПазарджикJuly 2024 · 1 day
- 380 haSeptemvri СептемвриAugust 2026 · 1 day
- 196 haStrelcha Стрелча8 July 2024 · 2 days
- 152 haStrelcha Стрелча16 July 2024 · 2 days
- 112 haSeptemvri СептемвриJuly 2025 · 1 day
- 105 haStrelcha СтрелчаSeptember 2016 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 451 | Septemvri 380 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 112 | Septemvri 112 ha |
| 2024 | 3 | 772 | Pazardzhik 424 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 472 | Septemvri 472 ha |
| 2022 | 2 | 937 | Panagyurishte 833 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 33 | Stamboliyski 33 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 105 | Strelcha 105 ha |
All fires in Pazardzhik · 11
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 70 haStamboliyski СтамболийскиSeptember 2026 · 1 day of 376 ha in total
- 380 haSeptemvri СептемвриAugust 2026 · 1 day
- 112 haSeptemvri СептемвриJuly 2025 · 1 day
- 424 haPazardzhik ПазарджикJuly 2024 · 1 day
- 152 haStrelcha Стрелча16 July 2024 · 2 days
- 196 haStrelcha Стрелча8 July 2024 · 2 days
- 473 haSeptemvri СептемвриJuly 2023 · 2 days
- 833 haPanagyurishte ПанагюрищеAugust 2022 · 1 day
- 104 haLesichovo ЛесичовоJuly 2022 · 3 days
- 33 haStamboliyski СтамболийскиJuly 2017 · 1 day of 299 ha in total
- 105 haStrelcha СтрелчаSeptember 2016 · 1 day
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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