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Wildfires in Kalbajar

District of Azerbaijan

Wildfires in Kalbajar

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 10:27 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 2026-09-23

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 930 km² of Kalbajar at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 94 km², ranking 8th of 78 regions of Azerbaijan.

94 km²detected in an average year
2017busiest year, 273 km²
2024quietest year, 1.9 km²
Septemberpeak month, 22% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 173 km2'122013: 130 km2'132014: 106 km2'142015: 52 km2'152016: 26 km2'162017: 273 km2'172018: 50 km2'182019: 130 km2'192020: 88 km2'202021: 43 km2'212022: 86 km2'222023: 47 km2'232024: 1.9 km2'242025: 106 km2'25273 km2

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

The busiest year was 2017, with 273 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 1.9 km². The 2021–2025 average is 41% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 4.8%JFebruary: 4.5%FMarch: 12%MApril: 10%AMay: 0.8%MJune: 0.2%JJuly: 0.8%JAugust: 4.2%ASeptember: 22%SOctober: 9.1%ONovember: 22%NDecember: 9.4%D22%

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

September, October and November together hold 53% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 15 September 2017, with detections in 47 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 930 km² with at least one detection, 7.8% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year65370%
2 years20422%
3 to 5 years697.4%
6 to 10 years3.70.4%
11 years or more0.00.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 40.25, 46.25 and holds 54% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012173208
2013130151
2014106125
20155261
20162628
2017273401
20185055
2019130160
202088114
20214345
202286100
20234753
20241.92
2025106150

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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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