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Wildfires in Pleven
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 07:28 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 2,610 km² of Pleven at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 387 km², ranking 2nd 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 2019, with 912 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 71 km². The 2021–2025 average is 64% lower than 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.
August, September and October together hold 73% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 9 September 2012, with detections in 60 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,610 km² with at least one detection, 29% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,190 | 46% |
| 2 years | 659 | 25% |
| 3 to 5 years | 696 | 27% |
| 6 to 10 years | 63 | 2.4% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 43.25, 24.25 and holds 31% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 816 | 1,097 |
| 2013 | 418 | 518 |
| 2014 | 295 | 356 |
| 2015 | 365 | 456 |
| 2016 | 452 | 589 |
| 2017 | 609 | 808 |
| 2018 | 520 | 677 |
| 2019 | 912 | 1,279 |
| 2020 | 194 | 236 |
| 2021 | 234 | 278 |
| 2022 | 231 | 275 |
| 2023 | 155 | 188 |
| 2024 | 148 | 184 |
| 2025 | 71 | 84 |
Other regions of Bulgaria
- Vratsa433 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
- Plovdiv180 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
- Lovech0 km
- Sofia55 km
- Vratsa68 km
- Veliko Tarnovo80 km
- Teleorman, Romania97 km
- Montana97 km