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Wildfires in East Kazakhstan
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 10:27 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 42,400 km² of East Kazakhstan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 3,840 km², ranking 5th 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 8,140 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 565 km². The 2021–2025 average is 47% 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 45% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 7 August 2015, with detections in 874 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 42,400 km² with at least one detection, 4.5% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 34,360 | 81% |
| 2 years | 6,130 | 14% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,760 | 4.1% |
| 6 to 10 years | 137 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 12 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 50.25, 80.25 and holds 5.1% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4,350 | 6,472 |
| 2013 | 2,240 | 3,468 |
| 2014 | 8,140 | 11,322 |
| 2015 | 6,230 | 8,661 |
| 2016 | 1,580 | 2,804 |
| 2017 | 4,960 | 7,604 |
| 2018 | 3,820 | 5,625 |
| 2019 | 5,620 | 8,170 |
| 2020 | 4,790 | 7,194 |
| 2021 | 3,690 | 5,827 |
| 2022 | 4,490 | 7,276 |
| 2023 | 1,990 | 4,049 |
| 2024 | 565 | 1,525 |
| 2025 | 1,260 | 2,696 |
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
- Almaty4,010 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
- Altai Republic, Russian Federation329 km
- Pavlodar329 km
- Karaganda497 km
- Kemerovo, Russian Federation603 km
- Novosibirsk, Russian Federation633 km
- Almaty646 km