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Wildfires in Sheki
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 06:20 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 742 km² of Sheki at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 96 km², ranking 7th of 78 regions of Azerbaijan.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2019, with 178 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 14 km². The 2021–2025 average is 64% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
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 58% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 22 August 2017, with detections in 22 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 742 km² with at least one detection, 20% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 414 | 56% |
| 2 years | 179 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 132 | 18% |
| 6 to 10 years | 17 | 2.3% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 41.25, 46.75 and holds 37% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 120 | 145 |
| 2013 | 63 | 71 |
| 2014 | 68 | 90 |
| 2015 | 175 | 207 |
| 2016 | 161 | 197 |
| 2017 | 162 | 209 |
| 2018 | 143 | 174 |
| 2019 | 178 | 231 |
| 2020 | 63 | 71 |
| 2021 | 51 | 56 |
| 2022 | 39 | 46 |
| 2023 | 18 | 19 |
| 2024 | 14 | 15 |
| 2025 | 90 | 109 |
Other regions of Azerbaijan
- Fuzuli228 km² in an average year
- Khojavend167 km² in an average year
- Aghjabadi132 km² in an average year
- Agdam132 km² in an average year
- Jalilabad106 km² in an average year
- Jabrayil104 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
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.