Popitsa

outByala Slatina municipality, Vratsa province · the centre is 2.1 km from the village

9 Oct, 14:341 detection now · total 4

Detection power

9 Oct, 13:459 Oct, 14:34

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

By day

Day	Detections	Max. power
9 Oct	4	42 MW

Estimate

Field burn

The model gives only a 5% chance that this was a significant fire: it looked like a field or pasture burn. Around the detections: 17% forest, shrubs and grass, 76% farmland.

Chance it was a significant fire: 5%

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: 9 Oct 2018, 13:45
Last detected: 9 Oct 2018, 14:34
Duration: 1 h
Detections: 4
Max. power: 42 MW
Extent: 70 ha; The area around the detections: a rough estimate, usually larger than what burned.

What is on the ground

forest 11%
grass 6%
farmland 76%
water 7%

Crops sown here (ДФЗ data): fallow land, grain maize

Nearest villages

Popitsa2.1 km
Byala Slatina2.5 km