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Wildfires in SlivenСливен

Sliven, Bulgaria: 10 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 4 municipalities since 2016, burning 2,328 hectares inside the region. The largest was Nova Zagora in August 2019, with 720 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
2,328ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.7%
3,512 km²
fires
10
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
2
of 4
Largest fire
720ha
Nova Zagora · August 2019
Inhabitants
168,267
13.8 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 29 Very low 9° · 94 % · 57 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 10° · 87 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 11° · 83 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 11° · 80 % · 42 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 11° · 92 % · 70 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 10° · 89 % · 66 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 8° · 88 % · 63 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 5° · 77 % · 28 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Kotel 15,704 inhabitants 1,609 ha · 2.0 %
  2. Nova Zagora 29,525 inhabitants 720 ha · 0.8 %

What burns in the region

  • Other natural land45 %
  • Agricultural areas19 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland17 %
  • Broadleaved forest16 %
  • Coniferous forest2.8 %

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
20261121 Kotel 121 ha
20251102 Kotel 102 ha
20241130 Kotel 130 ha
20231116 Kotel 116 ha
20222475 Kotel 250 ha
201941,385 Nova Zagora 720 ha

All fires in Sliven · 10

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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