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Wildfires in Issyk-Kul
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 473 km² of Issyk-Kul at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 39 km², ranking 4th of 8 regions of Kyrgyzstan.
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 78 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 9.1 km². The 2021–2025 average is 61% 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 51% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 March 2023, with detections in 15 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 473 km² with at least one detection, 2.3% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 413 | 87% |
| 2 years | 49 | 10% |
| 3 to 5 years | 11 | 2.3% |
| 6 to 10 years | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 42.75, 78.25 and holds 33% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 69 | 80 |
| 2013 | 67 | 74 |
| 2014 | 49 | 55 |
| 2015 | 41 | 46 |
| 2016 | 74 | 85 |
| 2017 | 78 | 92 |
| 2018 | 11 | 12 |
| 2019 | 22 | 24 |
| 2020 | 16 | 17 |
| 2021 | 14 | 15 |
| 2022 | 30 | 33 |
| 2023 | 45 | 51 |
| 2024 | 9.1 | 10 |
| 2025 | 20 | 23 |
Other regions of Kyrgyzstan
- Chuy453 km² in an average year
- Osh90 km² in an average year
- Jalal-Abad87 km² in an average year
- Talas22 km² in an average year
- Naryn17 km² in an average year
- Batken12 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.