🇧🇬 Bulgaria: wildfires in August 2026
Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.
Bulgaria, August 2026: 13 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 6 October at 04:03.
Busiest day: 5 August, with 2 ignitions detected.
"In August 2026, kanari archived 13 detection events in Bulgaria, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 400 MW."
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asenovgrad | 8 Aug, 07:28 | 54 | 400 |
| Borovan | 18 Aug, 07:48 | 93 | 330 |
| Chepintsi | 6 Aug, 14:55 | 16 | 157 |
| Petrich | 5 Aug, 12:40 | 1 | 110 |
| Tvarditsa | 29 Aug, 09:25 | 6 | 109 |
| Ugarchin | 21 Aug, 11:48 | 25 | 106 |
| Pavlikeni | 28 Aug, 13:58 | 9 | 101 |
| Kyustendil | 5 Aug, 12:10 | 1 | 100 |
| Maglizh | 20 Aug, 08:25 | 8 | 85 |
| Gulyantsi | 15 Aug, 11:38 | 15 | 72 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Bulgaria, August 2026: 13 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-06.
Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.
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