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Wildfires in Turkistan
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 10:26 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 9,400 km² of Turkistan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,230 km², ranking 12th 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 2020, with 1,810 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 664 km². The 2021–2025 average is 32% 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.
February, March and April together hold 47% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 8 February 2020, with detections in 193 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 9,400 km² with at least one detection, 18% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 6,260 | 67% |
| 2 years | 1,450 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,190 | 13% |
| 6 to 10 years | 486 | 5.2% |
| 11 years or more | 16 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 42.25, 69.75 and holds 15% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 866 | 1,365 |
| 2013 | 1,290 | 1,898 |
| 2014 | 1,280 | 1,947 |
| 2015 | 1,270 | 1,874 |
| 2016 | 1,710 | 2,321 |
| 2017 | 1,520 | 2,022 |
| 2018 | 1,340 | 1,917 |
| 2019 | 1,800 | 2,416 |
| 2020 | 1,810 | 2,437 |
| 2021 | 728 | 1,126 |
| 2022 | 664 | 1,024 |
| 2023 | 825 | 1,244 |
| 2024 | 875 | 1,218 |
| 2025 | 1,270 | 1,928 |
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
- East Kazakhstan3,840 km² in an average year
- Akmola3,730 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
- Jambyl134 km
- Tashkent, Uzbekistan166 km
- Sirdaryo, Uzbekistan186 km
- Namangan, Uzbekistan199 km
- Khujand, Tajikistan226 km
- Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan235 km