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Wildfires in Tovuz

District of Azerbaijan

Wildfires in Tovuz

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 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 248 km² of Tovuz at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 30 km², ranking 36th of 78 regions of Azerbaijan.

30 km²detected in an average year
2014busiest year, 59 km²
2023quietest year, 9.3 km²
Augustpeak month, 25% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 28 km2'122013: 23 km2'132014: 59 km2'142015: 54 km2'152016: 36 km2'162017: 33 km2'172018: 20 km2'182019: 37 km2'192020: 19 km2'202021: 21 km2'212022: 28 km2'222023: 9.3 km2'232024: 10 km2'242025: 42 km2'2559 km2

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

The busiest year was 2014, with 59 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 9.3 km². The 2021–2025 average is 45% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 2.9%JFebruary: 12%FMarch: 15%MApril: 2.9%AMay: 0.6%MJune: 2.0%JJuly: 20%JAugust: 25%ASeptember: 13%SOctober: 2.2%ONovember: 0.6%NDecember: 2.9%D25%

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 25 July 2014, with detections in 12 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 248 km² with at least one detection, 18% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year14358%
2 years6024%
3 to 5 years4518%
6 to 10 years0.00.0%
11 years or more0.00.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 40.75, 45.75 and holds 51% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20122831
20132326
20145968
20155466
20163643
20173342
20182021
20193745
20201922
20212124
20222830
20239.310
20241012
20254251

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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