Bulgaria — Natural Disaster Report
Europe · Live status: Normal (0 active events)
Current situation: No active natural disaster events are currently tracked for Bulgaria by our monitored sources. This does not guarantee absence of hazards — always follow local authorities.
Bulgaria faces moderate but real seismic hazard, with historical earthquakes affecting Sofia and the Rila region. Flash flooding is the more frequent hazard: intense summer storms produce rapid floods in valleys and towns, and dam or levee failures have caused deadly events. Summer heatwaves and drought affect the Danubian plain and Thracian valley, while forest fires burn during hot, dry periods. Heavy snow and blizzards disrupt mountain regions and Black Sea coastal areas in winter.
Live map — Bulgaria
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Active alerts & recent events
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By hazard in Bulgaria
Each of these has its own page: recent activity, the season it happens in, past events and what to do.
- Cold Waves in Bulgaria
- Extreme Weather in Bulgaria
- Heavy Rains in Bulgaria
- Severe Storms in Bulgaria
- Wildfires in Bulgaria
Risk profile
Flash floods and river flooding, spring and summer. Earthquakes, moderate, year-round. Heatwaves and drought July-August. Wildfires in summer. Blizzards and heavy snow December-February.
Official emergency authorities
Disaster displacement in Bulgaria
46 internal displacements
Largest single event: 46 from wildfire, beginning 26 July 2025.
A displacement is a movement, not a person: somebody forced from home more than once in a year is counted more than once. These are movements caused by disasters only — displacement caused by conflict is counted separately and is not included here.
| Hazard | Displacements in 2025 |
|---|---|
| Wildfire | 46 |
| Year | Displacements |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 |
| 2024 | 788 |
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Global Internal Displacement Database. IDMC publishes annually, so the latest year here is the latest they have finalised — not the current one.
What this site sees in Bulgaria
| Source | Events here, last 12 months | What it will not tell you |
|---|---|---|
| MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET) | 23 | Europe only. It publishes no coordinates at all, so every warning here is placed at the centre of its country and the area name is the only reliable indication of where it applies. |
| WMO Alert Hub (national weather services) | 22 | Each warning comes from one country own alerting authority, so the scale is that agency scale and is not comparable between countries. Many agencies publish no coordinates, and those warnings are placed at the centre of the country rather than where the weather is - the area name is the real answer. |
| NASA FIRMS | 11 | Global, but it sees only what the satellite saw on its pass, and thick cloud hides fire. A quiet day here is not evidence that nothing burned. |
| GDACS (European Commission / United Nations) | none | Global, but deliberately selective: it alerts on disasters likely to need INTERNATIONAL response. Serious local flooding that a national agency handles alone will not appear here. |
| US Geological Survey | none | Global for earthquakes above roughly M4.5, and denser where there are more seismometers. It publishes nothing about any other hazard. |
| European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre | none | Global for earthquakes, with the best coverage in Europe and the Mediterranean. It publishes nothing about any other hazard. |
| NASA EONET | none | Global and curated rather than automatic, so it is slower than the raw feeds and carries far fewer events. |
| NOAA Tsunami Warning Centers | none | These two centres warn for the US and Canadian coasts and for the Pacific and Caribbean basins. The Indian Ocean and Mediterranean have their own warning centres, which are not read here. Their routine information statements - the ones that say there is NO tsunami danger - are deliberately not imported, so an empty tsunami list means no threat was issued, not that nothing was checked. |
| NOAA National Hurricane Center | none | The Atlantic and the eastern and central Pacific only. No typhoon in the western Pacific and no cyclone in the Indian Ocean or the southern hemisphere appears here; those come from GDACS and from national services. |
| ReliefWeb (UN OCHA) | none | Global, but it reports on humanitarian RESPONSE. It arrives days after an event rather than during it, and never functions as a warning. |
Not applicable here: US National Weather Service — Covers the United States only. It publishes nothing about any other country, so its absence from a country page is not an outage. ; USGS Volcano Hazards Program — United States volcanoes only - Alaska, Hawaii, the Cascades, Yellowstone, California and the Northern Mariana Islands. It says nothing about Indonesia, Iceland, Italy or anywhere else, so its silence about a foreign eruption is not a judgement about that eruption.
Frequently asked questions
What natural disasters are currently active in Bulgaria?
No active natural disaster events are currently being tracked for Bulgaria by our monitored data sources. Conditions can change quickly — check official local authorities for definitive guidance.
What natural hazards does Bulgaria face?
Bulgaria faces moderate but real seismic hazard, with historical earthquakes affecting Sofia and the Rila region. Flash flooding is the more frequent hazard: intense summer storms produce rapid floods in valleys and towns, and dam or levee failures have caused deadly events.
When is the main natural disaster season in Bulgaria?
Flash floods and river flooding, spring and summer. Earthquakes, moderate, year-round. Heatwaves and drought July-August. Wildfires in summer. Blizzards and heavy snow December-February. Seasons shift from year to year; treat these as the usual pattern, not a forecast.
Which official agency issues disaster warnings in Bulgaria?
Official warnings for Bulgaria are issued by National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH). The link is on this page. This site aggregates and reports; it does not issue warnings, and in an emergency the national agency is the authority.
Where does this disaster data for Bulgaria come from?
Data is aggregated from official sources including USGS, GDACS (EC/UN), NASA EONET, ReliefWeb and national agencies. Every event links to its original source, and update times are shown on each record.
Data sources: USGS, GDACS (EC/UN), NASA EONET, NOAA/NWS, EMSC, ReliefWeb (UN OCHA). See data sources & attribution and methodology. This page does not replace official emergency guidance.