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Wildfires in Azerbaijan

168 fires over 500 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 179,905 hectares burned across 27 districts.

Only fires of 500 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

Azerbaijan, at this point in the year: 18,370 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 79,379.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–202575,385 ha

Worst year2019 184,967 ha

With a page here168 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	85	18,370	GWIS
2025	117	34,078	GWIS
2024	58	13,478	GWIS
2023	66	14,429	GWIS
2022	203	59,328	GWIS
2021	255	80,973	GWIS
2020	240	60,917	GWIS
2019	533	184,967	GWIS
2018	382	87,672	GWIS
2017	339	111,253	GWIS
2016	371	106,751	GWIS
2015	614	227,596	GWIS
2014	179	50,756	GWIS
2013	292	79,542	GWIS
2012	276	78,261	GWIS

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

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