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Fuzuli District fire, 18 July 2017 Fuzuli District

Out · last detection 21 Jul 2017, 09:46 UTC

The fire started on 18 July 2017 in Fuzuli District, Azerbaijan, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 908 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 68th largest in Contiguous Azerbaijan since 2016 (of 168 with a page). Number 9 in Azerbaijan in 2017, of 20.

The power measured by the satellite is low (19.3 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
908ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
4days
18 Jul 2017 – 21 Jul 2017
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
18 Jul
2017
Heat detections
26
in a single hotspot: 19 MW
Danger at start
33
High · FWI index
Energy released
118MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

21 Jul 2017
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 18 Jul21 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

18192021

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

36°high
35km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

64% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 581 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Fuzuli District where it started
    909 ha reached on 18 Jul
    0.6 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
18 Jul 34.6 °C 34 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
19 Jul 35.0 °C 27 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
20 Jul 34.7 °C 22 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
21 Jul 35.9 °C 21 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
22 Jul after 35.3 °C 28 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
23 Jul after 34.7 °C 38 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
24 Jul after 31.2 °C 41 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
25 Jul after 32.2 °C 36 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
26 Jul after 34.4 °C 33 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
27 Jul after 35.7 °C 30 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
28 Jul after 35.9 °C 31 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
29 Jul after 36.8 °C 33 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
30 Jul after 35.7 °C 37 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
31 Jul after 34.1 °C 33 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 38

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 11 Jul 2017
After · 28 Jul 2017

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 26Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Fuzuli District fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 18 July 2017 and 21 July 2017: 4 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 908 hectares (9.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Fuzuli District (909 ha, 0.6 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.9 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 39, class Very high.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Azerbaijan (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 112

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.