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Wildfires in Blagoevgrad
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 613 km² of Blagoevgrad at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 57 km², ranking 18th of 28 regions of Bulgaria.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2012, with 110 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 23 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
July, August and September together hold 48% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 27 July 2025, with detections in 33 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 613 km² with at least one detection, 5.8% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 485 | 79% |
| 2 years | 93 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 32 | 5.3% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2.8 | 0.5% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 41.75, 23.25 and holds 35% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 110 | 130 |
| 2013 | 38 | 43 |
| 2014 | 43 | 47 |
| 2015 | 43 | 47 |
| 2016 | 46 | 52 |
| 2017 | 71 | 98 |
| 2018 | 36 | 41 |
| 2019 | 96 | 116 |
| 2020 | 27 | 29 |
| 2021 | 44 | 50 |
| 2022 | 32 | 36 |
| 2023 | 23 | 25 |
| 2024 | 83 | 138 |
| 2025 | 102 | 168 |
Other regions of Bulgaria
- Vratsa433 km² in an average year
- Pleven387 km² in an average year
- Montana304 km² in an average year
- Dobrich263 km² in an average year
- Silistra188 km² in an average year
- Lovech184 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Pazardzhik99 km
- Centre Macedonia, Greece118 km
- Pčinja, Serbia135 km
- Plovdiv135 km
- Novaci, North Macedonia136 km
- Rosoman, North Macedonia136 km