Polkovnik Cholakovo

outKaynardzha municipality, Silistra province · the centre is 2.2 km from the village

16 Oct, 14:541 detection now · total 11

Detection power

16 Oct, 12:5216 Oct, 14:54

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

By day

Day	Detections	Max. power
16 Oct	11	25 MW

Estimate

Field burn

The model gives only a 9% chance that this was a significant fire: it looked like a field or pasture burn. Around the detections: 28% forest, shrubs and grass, 72% farmland.

Chance it was a significant fire: 9%

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: 16 Oct 2018, 12:52
Last detected: 16 Oct 2018, 14:54
Duration: 2 h
Detections: 11
Max. power: 25 MW
Extent: 152 ha; The area around the detections: a rough estimate, usually larger than what burned.

What is on the ground

forest 12%
grass 16%
farmland 72%

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

Nearest villages

Polkovnik Cholakovo2.2 km
Brestnitsa3.2 km