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Wildfires in Karaganda
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 07:28 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 68,130 km² of Karaganda at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 5,560 km², ranking 1st 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 2017, with 22,530 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 517 km². The 2021–2025 average is 49% 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 66% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 9 July 2017, with detections in 2,159 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 68,130 km² with at least one detection, 1.5% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 60,000 | 88% |
| 2 years | 7,130 | 10% |
| 3 to 5 years | 934 | 1.4% |
| 6 to 10 years | 33 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 33 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 50.25, 73.25 and holds 15% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2,870 | 6,702 |
| 2013 | 2,510 | 5,707 |
| 2014 | 4,760 | 8,520 |
| 2015 | 9,320 | 14,391 |
| 2016 | 3,340 | 6,623 |
| 2017 | 22,530 | 32,152 |
| 2018 | 1,840 | 4,427 |
| 2019 | 14,740 | 21,618 |
| 2020 | 4,450 | 8,533 |
| 2021 | 5,920 | 10,423 |
| 2022 | 3,320 | 6,865 |
| 2023 | 1,160 | 4,346 |
| 2024 | 517 | 3,283 |
| 2025 | 625 | 4,166 |
Other regions of Kazakhstan
- Kostanay5,310 km² in an average year
- North Kazakhstan4,400 km² in an average year
- Almaty4,010 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
- Pavlodar329 km
- Akmola356 km
- East Kazakhstan497 km
- Almaty512 km
- North Kazakhstan603 km
- Omsk, Russian Federation625 km