Popitsa

outByala Slatina municipality, Vratsa province · the centre is 1.1 km from the village

15 Jul, 04:011 detection now · total 9

Detection power

13 Jul, 14:2315 Jul, 04:01

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

By day

Day	Detections	Max. power
13 Jul	2	15 MW
14 Jul	2	20 MW
15 Jul	5	2 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: 7% forest, shrubs and grass, 90% 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 Jul 2016, 14:23
Last detected: 15 Jul 2016, 04:01
Duration: 38 h
Detections: 9
Max. power: 20 MW
Extent: 189 ha; The area around the detections: a rough estimate, usually larger than what burned.

What is on the ground

forest 4%
grass 3%
farmland 90%
built-up 2%

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

Nearest villages

Popitsa1.1 km
Byala Slatina1.6 km

Nearby at the same time

Tarnak12 Jul
Suhache10 Jul
Knezha14 Jul
Tarnava12 Jul
Bukovets14 Jul
Popitsa14 Jul
Vranyak14 Jul