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Wildfires in VratsaВраца

Vratsa, Bulgaria: 24 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 10 municipalities since 2016, burning 7,280 hectares inside the region. The largest was Cherven Bryag in 16 July 2024, with 1,390 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
7,280ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.0%
3,631 km²
fires
24
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 10
Largest fire
1,390ha
Cherven Bryag · 16 July 2024
Inhabitants
144,502
50.4 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Very low 12° · 62 % · 34 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 13° · 57 % · 36 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 11° · 80 % · 19 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 14° · 70 % · 17 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 14° · 75 % · 18 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 14° · 74 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 10° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 9° · 92 % · 28 km/h
  9. Tue 3 Very low 8° · 91 % · 32 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. Roman 4,632 inhabitants 4,352 ha · 14 %
  2. Byala Slatina 18,850 inhabitants 1,518 ha · 2.5 %
  3. Vratsa 58,721 inhabitants 505 ha · 0.7 %
  4. Oryahovo 7,916 inhabitants 493 ha · 1.6 %
  5. Krivodol 7,249 inhabitants 105 ha · 0.3 %
  6. Mezdra 16,260 inhabitants 103 ha · 0.2 %
  7. Miziya 5,342 inhabitants 103 ha · 0.5 %
  8. Borovan 4,606 inhabitants 102 ha · 0.5 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas50 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland20 %
  • Other natural land17 %
  • Broadleaved forest10 %
  • Mixed forest1.9 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.6 %

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
20263983 Byala Slatina 662 ha
20251231 Oryahovo 231 ha
202432,276 Cherven Bryag 1,390 ha
20231200 Roman 200 ha
202241,193 Vratsa 379 ha
20201103 Mezdra 103 ha
201961,419 Roman 789 ha
20182529 Roman 404 ha
2017268 Roman 44 ha
20161277 Cherven Bryag 277 ha

All fires in Vratsa · 24

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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