Balkantsi

outGeneral Toshevo municipality, Dobrich province · the centre is 0.5 km from the village

13 Aug, 14:561 detection now · total 3

Detection power

13 Aug, 11:3913 Aug, 14:56

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

By day

Day	Detections	Max. power
13 Aug	3	34 MW

Estimate

Field burn

The model gives only a 6% chance that this was a significant fire: it looked like a field or pasture burn. Around the detections: 5% forest, shrubs and grass, 93% farmland.

Chance it was a significant fire: 6%

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: 13 Aug 2002, 11:39
Last detected: 13 Aug 2002, 14:56
Duration: 3 h
Detections: 3
Max. power: 34 MW
Extent: 115 ha; The area around the detections: a rough estimate, usually larger than what burned.

What is on the ground

forest 5%
grass 1%
farmland 93%
built-up 2%

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

Nearest villages

Balkantsi0.5 km

Nearby at the same time

Pisarovo13 Aug
Metodievo13 Aug
Kremena13 Aug
Sarnino13 Aug
Malina13 Aug