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Wildfires in Azerbaijan

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC

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Fire history, 2012–2025

Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-21

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 23,300 km² of Azerbaijan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,970 km², ranking 95th of 200 countries.

2,970 km²detected in an average year
2015busiest year, 4,670 km²
2024quietest year, 1,350 km²
Augustpeak month, 22% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 2,730 km2'122013: 3,400 km2'132014: 2,330 km2'142015: 4,670 km2'152016: 3,800 km2'162017: 3,680 km2'172018: 3,170 km2'182019: 4,420 km2'192020: 2,790 km2'202021: 2,630 km2'212022: 2,550 km2'222023: 1,490 km2'232024: 1,350 km2'242025: 2,630 km2'254,670 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2015, with 4,670 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 1,350 km². The 2021–2025 average is 37% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 4.1%JFebruary: 8.2%FMarch: 8.9%MApril: 3.6%AMay: 2.4%MJune: 11%JJuly: 20%JAugust: 22%ASeptember: 11%SOctober: 4.7%ONovember: 2.9%NDecember: 2.2%D22%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

July, August and September together hold 52% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 7 February 2020, with detections in 399 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 23,300 km² with at least one detection, 19% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year13,39057%
2 years5,39023%
3 to 5 years4,11018%
6 to 10 years3901.7%
11 years or more230.1%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 39.75, 47.25 and holds 13% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20122,7303,413
20133,4004,042
20142,3302,960
20154,6705,972
20163,8004,686
20173,6804,728
20183,1704,174
20194,4205,922
20202,7903,794
20212,6303,678
20222,5503,425
20231,4902,296
20241,3502,038
20252,6303,553

Nearby countries

Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.

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What is actually burning
What is actually burningThe ESA WorldCover class under every detection, read at 10 m. Forest, cropland, shrub or built-up, named rather than guessed.
Has this ground burned before
Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.
Alerts that stay quiet
Alerts that stay quietA fire must miss two passes before we say it stopped and grow by more than half again before we say it spread. Nothing is said twice.