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Wildfires in Balkan
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 2,270 km² of Balkan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 385 km², ranking 5th of 5 regions of Turkmenistan.
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 2019, with 894 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 200 km². The 2021–2025 average is 45% 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 35% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 August 2019, with detections in 53 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,270 km² with at least one detection, 33% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,070 | 47% |
| 2 years | 439 | 19% |
| 3 to 5 years | 624 | 27% |
| 6 to 10 years | 99 | 4.4% |
| 11 years or more | 36 | 1.6% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 40.25, 52.75 and holds 19% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 324 | 5,219 |
| 2013 | 387 | 5,852 |
| 2014 | 435 | 5,512 |
| 2015 | 434 | 4,605 |
| 2016 | 669 | 4,969 |
| 2017 | 276 | 5,043 |
| 2018 | 335 | 3,828 |
| 2019 | 894 | 4,013 |
| 2020 | 407 | 3,866 |
| 2021 | 330 | 2,597 |
| 2022 | 226 | 2,201 |
| 2023 | 205 | 2,453 |
| 2024 | 200 | 2,603 |
| 2025 | 272 | 2,871 |
Other regions of Turkmenistan
- Ahal1,420 km² in an average year
- Mary1,310 km² in an average year
- Lebap912 km² in an average year
- Daşoguz546 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
- Baku, Azerbaijan297 km
- Sabirabad, Azerbaijan345 km
- Neftchala, Azerbaijan359 km
- Kurdamir, Azerbaijan381 km
- Mazandaran, Iran391 km
- Jalilabad, Azerbaijan400 km