Popitsa

outByala Slatina municipality, Vratsa province · the centre is 2.5 km from the village

3 Sep, 12:593 detections now · total 4

Detection power

3 Sep, 03:153 Sep, 12:59

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

By day

Day	Detections	Max. power
3 Sep	4	6 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: 5% forest, shrubs and grass, 95% 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: 3 Sep 2012, 03:15
Last detected: 3 Sep 2012, 12:59
Duration: 10 h
Detections: 4
Max. power: 6 MW
Extent: 45 ha; The area around the detections: a rough estimate, usually larger than what burned.

What is on the ground

forest 5%
farmland 95%

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

Nearest villages

Popitsa2.5 km