Wildfires in SofiaСофийска
Sofia, Bulgaria: 11 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 23 municipalities since 2016, burning 6,921 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kostinbrod in July 2025, with 3,069 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
- 6,921ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.0%
- 7,076 km²
- fires
- 11
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 8
- of 23
- Largest fire
- 3,069ha
- Kostinbrod · July 2025
- Inhabitants
- 42,527
- 162.7 ha burned per thousand inhabitants
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 14° · 55 % · 35 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 16° · 45 % · 23 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 15° · 64 % · 29 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 12° · 87 % · 26 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 13° · 34 % · 25 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 8° · 69 % · 26 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 14° · 57 % · 30 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 12° · 49 % · 40 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Kostinbrod 94 inhabitants 3,961 ha · 15 %
- Dragoman 159 inhabitants 1,064 ha · 3.3 %
- Slivnitsa 14 inhabitants 729 ha · 3.7 %
- Svoge 1,467 inhabitants 655 ha · 0.8 %
- Koprivshtitsa 1,852 inhabitants 267 ha · 1.8 %
- Dolna Banya 4,221 inhabitants 130 ha · 1.3 %
- Etropole 132 inhabitants 110 ha · 0.3 %
- Kostenets 3,128 inhabitants 5 ha · 0.0 %
What burns in the region
- Other natural land75 %
- Scrub and transitional woodland13 %
- Agricultural areas9.4 %
- Mixed forest1.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more fires over 100 ha since 2016.
- 3×Kostinbrod3,961 ha
- 3×Slivnitsa729 ha
- 3×Svoge655 ha
- 2×Dragoman1,064 ha
- 2×Koprivshtitsa267 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 3,069 haKostinbrod КостинбродJuly 2025 · 2 days
- 2,402 haKostinbrod КостинбродOctober 2023 · 1 day
- 340 haSvoge Своге29 March 2019 · 2 days
- 190 haKostinbrod КостинбродSeptember 2024 · 1 day
- 171 haSvoge СвогеMarch 2017 · 1 day
- 144 haSvoge Своге20 March 2019 · 1 day
- 140 haKoprivshtitsa КопривщицаApril 2024 · 2 days
- 135 haDolna Banya Долна баняSeptember 2025 · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 3,204 | Kostinbrod 3,069 ha |
| 2024 | 3 | 423 | Kostinbrod 190 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 2,402 | Kostinbrod 2,402 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 127 | Koprivshtitsa 127 ha |
| 2019 | 3 | 594 | Svoge 340 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 171 | Svoge 171 ha |
All fires in Sofia · 11
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 135 haDolna Banya Долна баняSeptember 2025 · 1 day
- 3,069 haKostinbrod КостинбродJuly 2025 · 2 days
- 190 haKostinbrod КостинбродSeptember 2024 · 1 day
- 93 haSlivnitsa СливницаAugust 2024 · 2 days of 201 ha in total
- 140 haKoprivshtitsa КопривщицаApril 2024 · 2 days
- 2,402 haKostinbrod КостинбродOctober 2023 · 1 day
- 127 haKoprivshtitsa КопривщицаMarch 2021 · 1 day
- 340 haSvoge Своге29 March 2019 · 2 days
- 144 haSvoge Своге20 March 2019 · 1 day
- 110 haEtropole ЯмнаMarch 2019 · 2 days of 156 ha in total
- 171 haSvoge СвогеMarch 2017 · 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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