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Wildfires in Sofia
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 681 km² of Sofia at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 67 km², ranking 16th 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 140 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 35 km². The 2021–2025 average is 46% 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.
July, August and September together hold 35% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 10 August 2015, with detections in 23 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 681 km² with at least one detection, 7.2% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 527 | 77% |
| 2 years | 105 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 43 | 6.3% |
| 6 to 10 years | 4.5 | 0.7% |
| 11 years or more | 1.8 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 42.75, 24.25 and holds 85% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
Show the table
| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 140 | 498 |
| 2013 | 50 | 456 |
| 2014 | 71 | 419 |
| 2015 | 76 | 473 |
| 2016 | 74 | 383 |
| 2017 | 82 | 482 |
| 2018 | 50 | 438 |
| 2019 | 121 | 493 |
| 2020 | 46 | 446 |
| 2021 | 36 | 338 |
| 2022 | 45 | 441 |
| 2023 | 56 | 396 |
| 2024 | 51 | 443 |
| 2025 | 35 | 330 |
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
- Pleven55 km
- Lovech55 km
- Pazardzhik55 km
- Plovdiv69 km
- Veliko Tarnovo98 km
- Vratsa118 km