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Ismailli District fire, September 2022 Ismailli District, Agsu District

Out · last detection 4 Sept 2022, 10:06 UTC

The fire started on 2 September 2022 in Ismailli District, Azerbaijan, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 568 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 135th largest in Contiguous Azerbaijan since 2016 (of 168 with a page). Number 6 in Azerbaijan in 2022, of 7.

Burnt area
568ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
3days
2 Sept 2022 – 4 Sept 2022
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
2 Sept
2022
Heat detections
22
in a single hotspot: 104 MW
Danger at start
32
High · FWI index
Energy released
398MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

4 Sept 2022
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 2 Sept4 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

234

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

The weather it burned in

34°high
27km/h · peak gust
16%lowest humidity

It had gone 23 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 12.0 mm on 6 Sept.

This area had burned before

64% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 362 ha in 2018, 16 ha in 2019.

What happened to each town

  1. Ismailli District where it started
    384 ha reached on 2 Sept
    0.2 %
  2. Agsu District
    184 ha reached on 2 Sept
    0.2 %

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)
2 Sept 33.5 °C 24 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
3 Sept 33.2 °C 16 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
4 Sept 32.4 °C 17 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
5 Sept after 30.2 °C 39 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
6 Sept after 20.3 °C 75 % 23 km/h 12.0 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 26 Aug 2022
After · 11 Sept 2022

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

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 5 September 2022 the air beside the fire reached 16 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak16 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1028 µg/m³
Optical depth0.44
311234567
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 22Every 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 Ismailli District fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 2 September 2022 and 4 September 2022: 3 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 568 hectares (5.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Ismailli District (384 ha, 0.2 %); Agsu District (184 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.5 °C, humidity dropped to 16 % and gusts hit 27 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 38, class 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.