Popitsa

outByala Slatina municipality, Vratsa province · the centre is 2.7 km from the village

7 Sep, 02:261 detection now · total 10

Detection power

6 Sep, 03:367 Sep, 02:26

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

By day

Day	Detections	Max. power
6 Sep	9	5 MW
7 Sep	1	2 MW

Estimate

Field burn

The model gives only a 4% chance that this was a significant fire: it looked like a field or pasture burn. Around the detections: 1% forest, shrubs and grass, 99% farmland.

Chance it was a significant fire: 4%

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: 6 Sep 2019, 03:36
Last detected: 7 Sep 2019, 02:26
Duration: 23 h
Detections: 10
Max. power: 5 MW
Extent: 107 ha; The area around the detections: a rough estimate, usually larger than what burned.

What is on the ground

forest 1%
grass 1%
farmland 99%

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

Nearest villages

Popitsa2.7 km

Nearby at the same time

Popitsa4 Sep
Sokolare3 Sep
Knezha6 Sep
Vranyak7 Sep
Tarnava7 Sep
Bardarski geran5 Sep