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Fuzuli District fire, 25 July 2018 Fuzuli District

Out · last detection 28 Jul 2018, 10:11 UTC

The fire started on 25 July 2018 in Fuzuli District, Azerbaijan, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 606 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 123th largest in Contiguous Azerbaijan since 2016 (of 168 with a page). Number 10 in Azerbaijan in 2018, of 17.

The power measured by the satellite is low (20.8 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
606ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
4days
25 Jul 2018 – 28 Jul 2018
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
25 Jul
2018
Heat detections
17
in a single hotspot: 21 MW
Danger at start
32
High · FWI index
Energy released
115MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

28 Jul 2018
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 25 Jul28 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

25262728

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

The weather it burned in

38°high
38km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

57% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 345 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Fuzuli District where it started
    607 ha reached on 25 Jul
    0.4 %

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)
25 Jul 37.7 °C 34 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
26 Jul 35.8 °C 44 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
27 Jul 37.1 °C 27 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
28 Jul 34.9 °C 28 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
29 Jul after 36.4 °C 28 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
30 Jul after 36.4 °C 30 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
31 Jul after 36.3 °C 23 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
1 Aug after 36.6 °C 27 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
2 Aug after 36.7 °C 25 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
3 Aug after 34.5 °C 31 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
4 Aug after 33.1 °C 39 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
5 Aug after 34.6 °C 37 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
6 Aug after 32.2 °C 41 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
7 Aug after 33.2 °C 42 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 31

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 18 Jul 2018
After · 4 Aug 2018

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 · 17Every 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 25 July 2018 and 28 July 2018: 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 606 hectares (6.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Fuzuli District (607 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.7 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 41, 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.