Ismailli District fire, August 2026 Ismailli District
The fire started on 9 August 2026 in Ismailli District, Azerbaijan, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 565 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 136th largest in Contiguous Azerbaijan since 2016 (of 168 with a page). Number 17 in Azerbaijan in 2026, of 17.
- Burnt area
- 565ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 1day
- 9 Aug 2026 – 9 Aug 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 9 Aug
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 10
- in a single hotspot: 60 MW
- Danger at start
- 42
- Very high · FWI index
- Energy released
- 233MW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 19 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 13 Aug.
This area had burned before
71% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 213 ha in 2016, 133 ha in 2018, 197 ha in 2019, 71 ha in 2020. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 402 ha that had burned before.
What happened to each town
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Ismailli District where it started565 ha reached on 9 Aug0.3 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Aug | 36.6 °C | 20 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 10 Aug after | 34.8 °C | 22 % | 26 km/h | 0.5 mm | Very high 38 |
| 11 Aug after | 32.2 °C | 32 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 12 Aug after | 32.2 °C | 39 % | 25 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 30 |
| 13 Aug after | 33.2 °C | 35 % | 33 km/h | 1.3 mm | High 23 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · CopernicusOn 12 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 18 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).
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 · 10Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 1,523 haShaki District11 August 2022 · 4 days · 29 km away
- 1,547 haOghuz District24 August 2019 · 3 days · 36 km away
- 1,522 haOghuz DistrictAugust 2016 · 4 days · 36 km away
- 3,615 haQabala DistrictAugust 2017 · 11 days · 37 km away
- 1,849 haQabala District26 August 2021 · 8 days · 37 km away
- 2,122 haShaki District8 August 2016 · 5 days · 38 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Ismailli District fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 9 August 2026 and 9 August 2026: 1 day 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 565 hectares (5.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Ismailli District (565 ha, 0.3 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 36.6 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 42, 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.