Polevata vodenitsa

outDupnitsa municipality, Kyustendil province · the centre is 0.2 km from the village

16 Jul, 14:592 detections now · total 39

Detection power

15 Jul, 22:0416 Jul, 14:59

Each dot is a patch of about 400 m where a satellite detected heat. The solid patch at the end is the burned area by Sentinel-2.

In the news

Headlines from Bulgarian news sites that name a place by the fire while it burned. Picked automatically; one may be about another fire nearby.

Day	Detections	Max. power
15 Jul	5	46 MW
16 Jul	34	42 MW

Wildfire

The model gives a 88% chance that this was a significant fire. Around the detections: 90% forest, shrubs and grass, 9% farmland.

Chance it was a significant fire: 88%

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: 15 Jul 2025, 22:04
Last detected: 16 Jul 2025, 14:59
Duration: 17 h
Detections: 39
Max. power: 46 MW
Burned area: 172 ha; From Sentinel-2 images of 8 Jul and 18 Jul: the ground whose vegetation burned in between. An estimate, with error.
Extent: 581 ha; The area around the detections: a rough estimate, usually larger than what burned.

EFFIS has not mapped this fire. It maps mostly fires over 30 ha, and not every one of them.

Crops sown here (ДФЗ data): sunflower