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Wildfires in VidinВидин

Vidin, Bulgaria: 15 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 11 municipalities since 2016, burning 3,908 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kula in March 2022, with 1,098 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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
3,908ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.3%
3,022 km²
fires
15
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 11
Largest fire
1,098ha
Kula · March 2022
Inhabitants
66,317
58.9 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 30 Very low 14° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 14° · 58 % · 37 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 9° · 79 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 10° · 98 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 9° · 98 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 11° · 75 % · 51 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 9° · 63 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 14° · 48 % · 33 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. Dimovo 4,571 inhabitants 1,661 ha · 4.4 %
  2. Boynitsa 694 inhabitants 901 ha · 5.2 %
  3. Ruzhinsi 3,015 inhabitants 439 ha · 1.9 %
  4. Kula 2,902 inhabitants 241 ha · 0.8 %
  5. Chuprene 1,568 inhabitants 224 ha · 0.7 %
  6. Belogradchik 4,653 inhabitants 190 ha · 0.4 %
  7. Vidin 44,089 inhabitants 149 ha · 0.3 %
  8. Makresh 1,075 inhabitants 102 ha · 0.4 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas75 %
  • Broadleaved forest7.8 %
  • Other natural land7.8 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland7.7 %
  • Artificial surfaces1.0 %
  • Mixed forest0.8 %

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
20262193 Dimovo 167 ha
202551,165 Dimovo 443 ha
20243865 Dimovo 561 ha
20231102 Makresh 102 ha
202221,359 Kula 1,098 ha
20192224 Chuprene 136 ha

All fires in Vidin · 15

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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