Benkovski

outDobrichka municipality, Dobrich province · the centre is 1.1 km from the village

18 Oct, 15:011 detection now · total 11

Detection power

17 Oct, 13:3918 Oct, 15:01

Each dot is a patch of about 400 m where a satellite detected heat.

By day

Day	Detections	Max. power
17 Oct	10	13 MW
18 Oct	1	13 MW

Estimate

Field burn

The model gives only a 6% chance that this was a significant fire: it looked like a field or pasture burn. Around the detections: 13% forest, shrubs and grass, 87% farmland.

Chance it was a significant fire: 6%

The estimate comes from a model trained on past fires in Bulgaria. It looks at a fire's first 24 hours: the land, the season and the detections.

First detected: 17 Oct 2017, 13:39
Last detected: 18 Oct 2017, 15:01
Duration: 25 h
Detections: 11
Max. power: 13 MW
Extent: 209 ha; The area around the detections: a rough estimate, usually larger than what burned.

What is on the ground

forest 2%
grass 10%
farmland 87%

Crops sown here (ДФЗ data): winter wheat, grain maize, sunflower, winter barley, walnuts

Nearest villages

Benkovski1.1 km