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Wildfires in Stara Zagora
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 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 1,000 km² of Stara Zagora at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 111 km², ranking 10th 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 2016, with 210 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 51 km². The 2021–2025 average is 37% 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 53% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 1 August 2016, with detections in 22 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,000 km² with at least one detection, 12% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 675 | 67% |
| 2 years | 210 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 104 | 10% |
| 6 to 10 years | 16 | 1.6% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 42.25, 25.75 and holds 58% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 150 | 170 |
| 2013 | 140 | 159 |
| 2014 | 91 | 105 |
| 2015 | 60 | 72 |
| 2016 | 210 | 269 |
| 2017 | 118 | 146 |
| 2018 | 93 | 117 |
| 2019 | 182 | 224 |
| 2020 | 100 | 118 |
| 2021 | 66 | 76 |
| 2022 | 114 | 142 |
| 2023 | 104 | 119 |
| 2024 | 73 | 82 |
| 2025 | 51 | 58 |
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
- Yambol41 km
- Sliven41 km
- Plovdiv82 km
- Veliko Tarnovo118 km
- East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece118 km
- Pazardzhik123 km