Galovo

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

14 Aug, 15:583 detections now · total 69

Detection power

14 Aug, 02:2814 Aug, 15:58

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
14 Aug	69	102 MW

Wildfire

The model gives a 86% chance that this was a significant fire. Around the detections: 46% forest, shrubs and grass, 23% farmland.

Chance it was a significant fire: 86%

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: 14 Aug 2025, 02:28
Last detected: 14 Aug 2025, 15:58
Duration: 14 h
Detections: 69
Max. power: 102 MW
Burned area: 164 ha; From Sentinel-2 images of 10 Aug and 15 Aug: the ground whose vegetation burned in between. An estimate, with error.
Extent: 482 ha; The area around the detections: a rough estimate, usually larger than what burned.

EFFIS mapped this fire: 231 ha burned (started 14 Aug). The extent here is 2.1× larger.

Pozhari.com rated it alert-worthy at the first satellite pass.

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