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Wildfires in Neftchala

District of Azerbaijan

Wildfires in Neftchala

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 557 km² of Neftchala at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 63 km², ranking 18th of 78 regions of Azerbaijan.

63 km²detected in an average year
2013busiest year, 186 km²
2018quietest year, 22 km²
Augustpeak month, 26% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 55 km2'122013: 186 km2'132014: 46 km2'142015: 106 km2'152016: 120 km2'162017: 86 km2'172018: 22 km2'182019: 45 km2'192020: 55 km2'202021: 40 km2'212022: 38 km2'222023: 37 km2'232024: 23 km2'242025: 27 km2'25186 km2

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

The busiest year was 2013, with 186 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 22 km². The 2021–2025 average is 68% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 5.1%JFebruary: 13%FMarch: 7.7%MApril: 1.7%AMay: 1.0%MJune: 4.9%JJuly: 11%JAugust: 26%ASeptember: 15%SOctober: 9.3%ONovember: 3.2%NDecember: 1.8%D26%

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 41 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 557 km² with at least one detection, 13% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year32959%
2 years15728%
3 to 5 years6812%
6 to 10 years2.90.5%
11 years or more0.00.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 39.25, 48.75 and holds 60% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20125562
2013186217
20144650
2015106124
2016120134
201786101
20182224
20194552
20205562
20214054
20223841
20233739
20242324
20252729

Other regions of Azerbaijan

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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