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Wildfires in West Kazakhstan
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 27,220 km² of West Kazakhstan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,240 km², ranking 9th 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 9,320 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 260 km². The 2021–2025 average is 82% 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.
June, July and August together hold 70% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 31 July 2017, with detections in 830 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 27,220 km² with at least one detection, 1.8% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 23,850 | 88% |
| 2 years | 2,870 | 11% |
| 3 to 5 years | 479 | 1.8% |
| 6 to 10 years | 13 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 9.3 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 51.25, 53.25 and holds 10% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 3,700 | 5,306 |
| 2013 | 1,060 | 1,820 |
| 2014 | 5,260 | 7,424 |
| 2015 | 3,220 | 4,692 |
| 2016 | 532 | 941 |
| 2017 | 9,320 | 12,554 |
| 2018 | 2,460 | 3,507 |
| 2019 | 1,000 | 1,608 |
| 2020 | 2,380 | 3,584 |
| 2021 | 716 | 1,256 |
| 2022 | 360 | 719 |
| 2023 | 463 | 915 |
| 2024 | 260 | 678 |
| 2025 | 655 | 1,230 |
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.