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Wildfires in Armenia

216 fires over 300 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 150,513 hectares burned across 32 municipalities.

Only fires of 300 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Armenia, at this point in the year: 1,439 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 11,135.

0 14k 28k Jan Apr Jul Oct Dec
2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

The GWIS yearly series

2012–2026
Yearly average 2016–202516,456 ha
Worst year2019 27,719 ha
With a page here216 since 2016
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›See the year-by-year table
Year Fires hectares Source
20268 1,439 GWIS
202573 24,143 GWIS
202411 2,639 GWIS
202326 5,625 GWIS
202265 22,888 GWIS
202119 5,292 GWIS
202017 3,900 GWIS
201990 27,719 GWIS
2018129 26,371 GWIS
201786 27,638 GWIS
201673 18,346 GWIS
201540 12,661 GWIS
201441 9,261 GWIS
201396 24,619 GWIS
201283 20,613 GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

When it burned: year by year, month by month

Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecΣLargest of the year
2026
303
306
2k
2,948 Vardenis 714 ha
2025
749
442
614
2k
745
32k
1k
37,627 Sisian 6,490 ha
2024
1k
1,398 Vardenis 823 ha
2023
1k
333
443
1,866 Karmir 443 ha
2022
407
2k
21k
10k
306
33,525 Sisian 6,870 ha
2021
668
2k
1k
391
4,051 Sisian 769 ha
2020
360
373
1k
318
776
836
3,690 Goris 776 ha
2019
523
4k
4k
9k
3k
20,398 Vardenis 1,974 ha
2018
2k
5k
5k
11,672 Kotayk 1,697 ha
2017
983
6k
14k
5k
391
25,759 Ararat 2,727 ha
2016
430
567
830
1k
3k
2k
7,579 Kapan 814 ha

Hectares burned per year

Largest recorded fires

By region

  1. Gegharkunik 34,483 ha · 66
  2. Lori 18,362 ha · 26
  3. Syunik 17,118 ha · 29
  4. Kotayk 11,506 ha · 21
  5. Tavush 7,174 ha · 21
  6. Shirak 4,864 ha · 12
  7. Ararat 4,124 ha · 5
  8. Vayots Dzor 3,260 ha · 7
  9. Aragatsotn 1,979 ha · 7
  10. Armavir 525 ha · 3

Fires in 2026 · 7

Fires in 2025 · 41

Fires in 2024 · 2

Fires in 2023 · 5

Fires in 2022 · 35

Fires in 2021 · 8

Fires in 2020 · 9

Fires in 2019 · 31

Fires in 2018 · 23

Fires in 2017 · 38

Fires in 2016 · 17