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Wildfires in Kazakhstan

743 fires over 3,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 4,904,160 hectares burned across 112 districts.

Only fires of 3,000 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

Kazakhstan, at this point in the year: 692,363 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 2,357,185.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20252,218,615 ha

Worst year2017 6,238,361 ha

With a page here743 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	2,243	693,359	GWIS
2025	2,034	612,387	GWIS
2024	812	267,539	GWIS
2023	2,294	767,929	GWIS
2022	4,222	1,488,205	GWIS
2021	5,744	2,313,271	GWIS
2020	6,731	2,554,664	GWIS
2019	8,854	4,126,450	GWIS
2018	6,040	2,322,906	GWIS
2017	11,875	6,238,361	GWIS
2016	4,361	1,494,435	GWIS
2015	7,055	3,342,760	GWIS
2014	7,274	3,005,037	GWIS
2013	3,210	1,049,147	GWIS
2012	11,195	4,038,932	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.

	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	48k	4k		3k	32k	186k	40k	5k		316,755	Kokpektinskiy 20,847 ha
2025		7k				7k	10k	19k		42,539	Moyynkumskiy 8,541 ha
2024	18k	3k						14k		34,969	Kurmangazinskiy 7,795 ha
2023	15k	27k	5k	50k	5k					101,980	Semipalatinskiy 50,232 ha
2022		46k	4k	10k	15k	7k	138k	29k		249,215	Zharminskiy 20,008 ha
2021		108k	7k	46k	44k	60k	64k	51k		380,632	Kurmangazinskiy 25,170 ha
2020	28k	43k	8k	99k	67k	12k	38k	24k		319,286	Sarysuskiy 19,208 ha
2019	9k	108k	15k	31k	482k	199k	115k	83k		1,041,202	Zhanaarkinskiy 50,151 ha
2018		7k		21k	159k	42k	86k	45k		359,574	Ayagozskiy 22,942 ha
2017		20k		99k	1,069k	465k	179k	28k	4k	1,864,234	Ulytauskiy 76,097 ha
2016		12k	22k	8k	24k	94k	34k			193,774	Naurzumskiy 17,407 ha