Wildfires in PlovdivПловдив
Plovdiv, Bulgaria: 15 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 18 municipalities since 2016, burning 4,438 hectares inside the region. The largest was Hisarya in July 2024, with 1,009 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).
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
- 4,438ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.7%
- 5,964 km²
- fires
- 15
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 7
- of 18
- Largest fire
- 1,009ha
- Hisarya · July 2024
- Inhabitants
- 638,290
- 7.0 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 26 Very low 19° · 59 % · 32 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 16° · 38 % · 37 km/h
- Wed 28 Low 16° · 56 % · 26 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 18° · 58 % · 21 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 16° · 67 % · 17 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 16° · 63 % · 23 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 13° · 63 % · 30 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 10° · 65 % · 43 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Brezovo 5,779 inhabitants 993 ha · 2.1 %
- Karlovo 44,470 inhabitants 877 ha · 0.8 %
- Kaloyanovo 10,102 inhabitants 728 ha · 2.5 %
- Hisarya 9,842 inhabitants 727 ha · 1.4 %
- Stamboliyski 17,536 inhabitants 572 ha · 11 %
- Parvomay 20,494 inhabitants 345 ha · 0.6 %
- Laki 1,990 inhabitants 195 ha · 0.8 %
What burns in the region
- Agricultural areas44 %
- Other natural land17 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland14 %
- Mixed forest11 %
- Coniferous forest7.8 %
- Broadleaved forest5.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 5×Brezovo993 ha
- 5×Karlovo877 ha
- 5×Kaloyanovo728 ha
- 3×Hisarya727 ha
- 2×Stamboliyski572 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,009 haHisarya ХисаряJuly 2024 · 3 days
- 635 haBrezovo Брезово16 July 2024 · 2 days
- 345 haParvomay ПървомайAugust 2020 · 2 days
- 318 haKaloyanovo КалояновоJuly 2024 · 3 days
- 306 haStamboliyski СтамболийскиSeptember 2026 · 1 day of 376 ha in total
- 266 haStamboliyski СтамболийскиJuly 2017 · 1 day of 299 ha in total
- 248 haBrezovo БрезовоJuly 2025 · 1 day
- 199 haBrezovo Брезово7 July 2024 · 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 | 3 | 597 | Stamboliyski 306 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 248 | Brezovo 248 ha |
| 2024 | 5 | 2,325 | Hisarya 1,009 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 193 | Brezovo 193 ha |
| 2021 | 2 | 297 | Laki 195 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 345 | Parvomay 345 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 266 | Stamboliyski 266 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 166 | Hisarya 166 ha |
All fires in Plovdiv · 15
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 176 haKarlovo КарловоSeptember 2026 · 1 day
- 306 haStamboliyski СтамболийскиSeptember 2026 · 1 day of 376 ha in total
- 114 haBrezovo БрезовоAugust 2026 · 1 day
- 248 haBrezovo БрезовоJuly 2025 · 1 day
- 164 haKarlovo КарловоJuly 2024 · 1 day
- 635 haBrezovo Брезово16 July 2024 · 2 days
- 1,009 haHisarya ХисаряJuly 2024 · 3 days
- 318 haKaloyanovo КалояновоJuly 2024 · 3 days
- 199 haBrezovo Брезово7 July 2024 · 1 day
- 193 haBrezovo БрезовоJuly 2022 · 2 days
- 195 haLaki ЛъкиAugust 2021 · 6 days
- 102 haKarlovo КарловоAugust 2021 · 2 days
- 345 haParvomay ПървомайAugust 2020 · 2 days
- 266 haStamboliyski СтамболийскиJuly 2017 · 1 day of 299 ha in total
- 166 haHisarya ХисаряAugust 2016 · 2 days
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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