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Wildfires in PlevenПлевен

Pleven, Bulgaria: 25 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 11 municipalities since 2016, burning 8,810 hectares inside the region. The largest was Cherven Bryag in 15 July 2024, with 1,542 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
8,810ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.0%
4,349 km²
fires
25
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 11
Largest fire
1,542ha
Cherven Bryag · 15 July 2024
Inhabitants
212,890
41.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Very low 14° · 55 % · 34 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 11° · 90 % · 17 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 13° · 85 % · 15 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 15° · 66 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 15° · 69 % · 29 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 57 % · 29 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 14° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 10° · 82 % · 50 km/h

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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. Cherven Bryag 21,479 inhabitants 6,006 ha · 14 %
  2. Dolna Mitropoliya 15,595 inhabitants 677 ha · 1.0 %
  3. Pleven 108,440 inhabitants 590 ha · 0.8 %
  4. Gulyantsi 8,535 inhabitants 581 ha · 1.3 %
  5. Iskar 5,313 inhabitants 348 ha · 1.7 %
  6. Dolni Dabnik 9,415 inhabitants 325 ha · 1.0 %
  7. Belene 6,927 inhabitants 159 ha · 0.7 %
  8. Nikopol 6,322 inhabitants 123 ha · 0.3 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas61 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland17 %
  • Broadleaved forest11 %
  • Other natural land11 %

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
20262577 Cherven Bryag 418 ha
20251307 Gulyantsi 307 ha
202474,589 Cherven Bryag 1,542 ha
20231101 Pleven 101 ha
20222160 Cherven Bryag 111 ha
201981,756 Cherven Bryag 653 ha
20181495 Cherven Bryag 495 ha
20172213 Roman 122 ha
20161611 Cherven Bryag 611 ha

All fires in Pleven · 25

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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