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Wildfires in Veliko Tarnovo
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 1,220 km² of Veliko Tarnovo at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 138 km², ranking 8th 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 2013, with 314 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 28 km². The 2021–2025 average is 81% 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 66% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 5 October 2017, with detections in 28 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,220 km² with at least one detection, 14% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 757 | 62% |
| 2 years | 292 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 171 | 14% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1.8 | 0.1% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 43.25, 25.25 and holds 55% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 253 | 317 |
| 2013 | 314 | 392 |
| 2014 | 208 | 253 |
| 2015 | 133 | 154 |
| 2016 | 135 | 161 |
| 2017 | 250 | 323 |
| 2018 | 144 | 168 |
| 2019 | 173 | 212 |
| 2020 | 114 | 132 |
| 2021 | 28 | 34 |
| 2022 | 72 | 89 |
| 2023 | 37 | 43 |
| 2024 | 32 | 36 |
| 2025 | 34 | 42 |
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
- Teleorman, Romania55 km
- Ruse68 km
- Giurgiu, Romania68 km
- Pleven80 km
- Lovech80 km
- Sofia98 km