Burned area
satellite only1,974ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 14 Nov 2019 – 19 Nov 2019
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AZ · Azerbaijan · –
Kalbajar District fire, 14 November 2019 Kalbajar District
Out · last measured on 19 Nov 2019
The fire started on 14 November 2019 in Kalbajar District, Azerbaijan, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,974 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 25th largest in Contiguous Azerbaijan since 2016 (of 278 with a page). Number 10 in Azerbaijan in 2019, of 74.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only6days
14 Nov 2019 to 19 Nov 2019: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 14 Nov 2019 – 19 Nov 2019
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only14 Nov 2019
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 14 Nov 2019
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Danger at the start
model5.0FWI · very low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 11.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 14 Nov 2019, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model6.9°C · 32% RH
High of 6.9 °C and minimum humidity of 32% on 14 November 2019; gusts of 43 km/h on 18 November 2019.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 14 Nov 2019 – 19 Nov 2019
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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What was saved on 24 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 1,974 ha
- Dates
- 14 Nov 2019 – 19 Nov 2019
- Name
- Kalbajar District
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/kalbajar-district-2019-11-2?v=2026-10-24A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
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CSV for this fire kalbajar-district-2019-11-2.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-14 | 0 | 0 | 6.9 | -6.6 | 32 | 4.3 | 18.7 | 0 | 5 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2019-11-15 | 0 | 0 | 5.7 | -5.8 | 40 | 5.4 | 22 | 0 | 4.7 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2019-11-16 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | -5.9 | 59 | 7.2 | 28.1 | 0 | 3.5 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2019-11-17 | 0 | 0 | 1.6 | -7.7 | 34 | 6.5 | 27 | 0 | 3.5 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2019-11-18 | 0 | 0 | -0.4 | -8.3 | 48 | 12.8 | 43.2 | 0 | 4.3 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2019-11-19 | 0 | 0 | 1.6 | -8.4 | 44 | 7.5 | 27.4 | 0 | 3.4 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2019-11-20 | 0 | 0 | 4.3 | -7.6 | 34 | 5.4 | 20.2 | 0 | 3.4 | muy_bajo | 0 |
| 2019-11-21 | 0 | 0 | -0.6 | -5.9 | 52 | 5.9 | 20.2 | 0.1 | 3.1 | muy_bajo | 0 |
| 2019-11-22 | 0 | 0 | -3.4 | -7.8 | 71 | 5.1 | 20.2 | 1.6 | 0.5 | muy_bajo | 0 |
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We have the GWIS perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.
- Burnt area
- 1,974ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 6days
- 14 Nov 2019 – 19 Nov 2019
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 14 Nov
- 2019
- Danger at start
- 5
- Very low · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
7°high
43km/h · peak gust
32%lowest humidity
It had gone 11 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.6 mm on 22 Nov.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Kalbajar District where it started1,976 ha0.7 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2020Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2020, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Nov | 6.9 °C | 32 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 5 |
| 15 Nov | 5.7 °C | 40 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 5 |
| 16 Nov | 0.9 °C | 59 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 17 Nov | 1.6 °C | 34 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 18 Nov | -0.4 °C | 48 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 19 Nov | 1.6 °C | 44 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 3 |
| 20 Nov after | 4.3 °C | 34 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 3 |
| 21 Nov after | -0.6 °C | 52 % | 20 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very low 3 |
| 22 Nov after | -3.4 °C | 71 % | 20 km/h | 1.6 mm | Very low 0 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 5.0, a minimum humidity of 32% and 11 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 26.
FWI at the start
5.0
Minimum humidity
32 %
Days without rain
11
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Kalbajar District fire, 14 November 2019
1,974 ha
6 days
FWI 5.0
Min. humidity 32 %
Kalbajar District fire, October 2017
1,334 ha
3 days
FWI 3.5
Min. humidity 31 %
8 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.9 mm on 29 Oct.
Qubadli District fire, November 2016
636 ha
2 days
FWI 3.7
Min. humidity 30 %
92 km away, in 2016
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 5.9 mm on 2 Dec.
Kalbajar District fire, October 2021
769 ha
1 day
FWI 0.8
Min. humidity 32 %
19 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.4 mm on 19 Oct.
Beylagan District fire, January 2022
525 ha
4 days
FWI 4.1
Min. humidity 33 %
145 km away, in 2022
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 4.9 mm on 5 Feb.
Lachin District fire, October 2021
645 ha
1 day
FWI 3.0
Min. humidity 30 %
32 km away, in 2021
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 1.3 mm on 25 Oct.
What happened to them
- 3 days
- median duration
- 756 ha
- median area
- 27 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 1.9 mm
- rain at the end (median; 25 of 26 had it)
It was 2.6 times larger than the median of its twins and lasted 6 days, against 3 days.
Only 3 of its 26 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 1 of 26, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 1.9 mm.
This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it
How it ended
1.6 mmfirst rain
22 Nov3 days after it ended
43km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 19 Nov, and on 22 Nov 1.6 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 25 of 26, with a median of 1.9 mm.
Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
How a twin is chosen
- Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
- Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
- Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
- Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
- They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 7 Nov 2019
After · 26 Nov 2019
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Other fires nearby
- 1,394 haKalbajar District13 September 2017 · 9 days · 3 km away
- 1,334 haKalbajar District24 October 2017 · 3 days · 8 km away
- 10,567 haKalbajar District2 September 2017 · 20 days · 13 km away
- 1,564 haVardenis29 September 2022 · 7 days · 15 km away
- 1,290 haKalbajar District9 November 2019 · 4 days · 26 km away
- 6,490 haKalbajar District25 November 2025 · 8 days · 27 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Kalbajar District fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 14 November 2019 and 19 November 2019: 6 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 1,974 hectares (19.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Kalbajar District (1,976 ha, 0.7 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 6.9 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 43 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 5, class Very low.
- 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.
- How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
- Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 26. Their median duration was 3 days and their median area 756 ha; 27 % went past 1,000 ha. Only 3 of its 26 twins burned more. The weather on the first day does not explain everything: the wind in the following days, the fuel and the firefighting also count. In 1 of 26, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 1.9 mm.
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 · Emergency number and official warnings
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2020, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.