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Wildfires in YambolЯмбол

Yambol, Bulgaria: 19 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 5 municipalities since 2016, burning 18,836 hectares inside the region. The largest was Bolyarovo in 16 July 2024, with 7,670 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
18,836ha
Since 2016
Of the region
5.4%
3,511 km²
fires
19
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 5
Largest fire
7,670ha
Bolyarovo · 16 July 2024
Inhabitants
104,571
180.1 ha burned per thousand inhabitants

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 11 Very low 19° · 70 % · 24 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 21° · 65 % · 37 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Low 22° · 54 % · 59 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 17° · 69 % · 34 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 10° · 61 % · 29 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 13° · 64 % · 27 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 17° · 69 % · 34 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 19° · 80 % · 61 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. Bolyarovo 2,930 inhabitants 10,030 ha · 15 %
  2. Elhovo 12,450 inhabitants 7,172 ha · 9.6 %
  3. Tundzha 20,196 inhabitants 1,409 ha · 1.1 %
  4. Straldzha 9,998 inhabitants 225 ha · 0.3 %

What burns in the region

  • Agricultural areas47 %
  • Other natural land26 %
  • Scrub and transitional woodland16 %
  • Broadleaved forest8.9 %
  • Mixed forest1.6 %
  • 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
20263850 Bolyarovo 557 ha
202555,018 Elhovo 3,953 ha
202449,709 Bolyarovo 7,670 ha
20231247 Tundzha 247 ha
20222691 Elhovo 521 ha
202021,505 Elhovo 1,027 ha
20171595 Tundzha 595 ha
20161221 Bolyarovo 221 ha

All fires in Yambol · 19

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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