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Wildfires in Ruse
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 06:20 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 706 km² of Ruse at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 75 km², ranking 15th 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 157 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 17 km². The 2021–2025 average is 68% 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.
September, October and November together hold 58% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 22 March 2012, with detections in 16 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 706 km² with at least one detection, 9.3% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 473 | 67% |
| 2 years | 168 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 60 | 8.5% |
| 6 to 10 years | 5.4 | 0.8% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 43.75, 25.75 and holds 55% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 142 | 172 |
| 2013 | 95 | 129 |
| 2014 | 114 | 146 |
| 2015 | 71 | 84 |
| 2016 | 50 | 63 |
| 2017 | 114 | 134 |
| 2018 | 96 | 123 |
| 2019 | 157 | 193 |
| 2020 | 66 | 81 |
| 2021 | 32 | 37 |
| 2022 | 42 | 49 |
| 2023 | 41 | 51 |
| 2024 | 17 | 20 |
| 2025 | 17 | 20 |
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
- Giurgiu, Romania0 km
- Teleorman, Romania40 km
- Veliko Tarnovo68 km
- Călărași, Romania97 km
- Prahova, Romania118 km
- Silistra120 km