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Wildfires in SilistraСилистра

Silistra, Bulgaria: 5 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 7 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,796 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tutrakan in February 2019, with 816 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
1,796ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.6%
2,868 km²
fires
5
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
2
of 7
Largest fire
816ha
Tutrakan · February 2019
Inhabitants
92,365
19.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 10 Very low 11° · 67 % · 21 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 16° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 21° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Low 24° · 50 % · 48 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 16° · 54 % · 39 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 9° · 61 % · 39 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 15° · 59 % · 35 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 17° · 62 % · 43 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. Tutrakan 11,259 inhabitants 1,686 ha · 3.8 %
  2. Sitovo 4,283 inhabitants 110 ha · 0.4 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land51 %
  • Other land cover22 %
  • Agricultural areas22 %
  • Broadleaved forest3.3 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland1.9 %

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
20253979 Tutrakan 447 ha
20192817 Tutrakan 816 ha

All fires in Silistra · 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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