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Wildfires in Almaty
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 28,540 km² of Almaty at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 4,010 km², ranking 4th of 16 regions of Kazakhstan.
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 2014, with 6,110 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 1,860 km². The 2021–2025 average is 26% 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.
March, April and May together hold 67% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 11 April 2021, with detections in 641 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 28,540 km² with at least one detection, 25% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 15,830 | 55% |
| 2 years | 5,690 | 20% |
| 3 to 5 years | 5,970 | 21% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1,050 | 3.7% |
| 11 years or more | 7.1 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 45.75, 74.75 and holds 7.7% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4,960 | 6,694 |
| 2013 | 4,500 | 6,032 |
| 2014 | 6,110 | 8,258 |
| 2015 | 4,710 | 6,508 |
| 2016 | 2,440 | 3,180 |
| 2017 | 3,590 | 4,517 |
| 2018 | 3,640 | 4,618 |
| 2019 | 4,080 | 5,335 |
| 2020 | 5,320 | 7,294 |
| 2021 | 4,620 | 6,422 |
| 2022 | 3,950 | 5,625 |
| 2023 | 3,570 | 5,461 |
| 2024 | 1,860 | 2,553 |
| 2025 | 2,790 | 3,713 |
Other regions of Kazakhstan
- Karaganda5,560 km² in an average year
- Kostanay5,310 km² in an average year
- North Kazakhstan4,400 km² in an average year
- East Kazakhstan3,840 km² in an average year
- Akmola3,730 km² in an average year
- Kyzylorda3,430 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
- Chuy, Kyrgyzstan333 km
- Jambyl434 km
- Karaganda512 km
- Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan539 km
- Namangan, Uzbekistan555 km
- Turkistan557 km