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Wildfires in West Azerbaijan
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 2,610 km² of West Azerbaijan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 250 km², ranking 18th of 31 regions of Iran.
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 2024, with 376 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 129 km². The 2021–2025 average is 19% higher 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 48% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 4 September 2013, with detections in 16 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,610 km² with at least one detection, 6.4% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,090 | 80% |
| 2 years | 352 | 13% |
| 3 to 5 years | 142 | 5.4% |
| 6 to 10 years | 18 | 0.7% |
| 11 years or more | 6.9 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 37.25, 45.25 and holds 48% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 133 | 493 |
| 2013 | 224 | 592 |
| 2014 | 224 | 694 |
| 2015 | 268 | 614 |
| 2016 | 325 | 760 |
| 2017 | 186 | 567 |
| 2018 | 253 | 637 |
| 2019 | 362 | 740 |
| 2020 | 129 | 575 |
| 2021 | 229 | 645 |
| 2022 | 131 | 388 |
| 2023 | 307 | 533 |
| 2024 | 376 | 640 |
| 2025 | 356 | 613 |
Other regions of Iran
- Khuzestan3,680 km² in an average year
- Fars1,460 km² in an average year
- Kermanshah934 km² in an average year
- Lorestan580 km² in an average year
- Golestan539 km² in an average year
- Ilam451 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.
Nearby regions
- Hakkâri, Turkey88 km
- East Azerbaijan141 km
- As-Sulaymaniyah, Iraq166 km
- Nineveh, Iraq186 km
- Duhok, Iraq186 km
- Kurdistan189 km