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Khojavend District fire, 19 June 2019 Khojavend District, Aghjabadi District, Fuzuli District

Out · last detection 16 Jul 2019, 09:53 UTC

The fire started on 19 June 2019 in Khojavend District, Azerbaijan, and satellites saw it burning for 27 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 12,995 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.

It is the largest fire in Contiguous Azerbaijan since 2016 (of 308 with a page). The largest in Azerbaijan in 2019, of 74.

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Burnt area
12,995ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
27days
19 Jun 2019 – 15 Jul 2019
Municipalities hit
3
districts
Started on
19 Jun
2019
Heat detections
396
in a single hotspot: 123 MW
Danger at start
32
High · FWI index
Average daily power
154MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 19 Jun15 Jul
16 Jul 2019

How it evolved, day by day

19 Jun 2019 · 55 MW · 16 20 Jun 2019 · 186 MW · 42 21 Jun 2019 · 157 MW · 11 23 Jun 2019 · 43 MW · 5 24 Jun 2019 · 49 MW · 8 25 Jun 2019 · 129 MW · 12 26 Jun 2019 · 45 MW · 4 27 Jun 2019 · 152 MW · 10 28 Jun 2019 · 33 MW · 6 29 Jun 2019 · 343 MW · 25 1 Jul 2019 · 69 MW · 20 2 Jul 2019 · 441 MW · 99 3 Jul 2019 · 1,231 MW · 88 4 Jul 2019 · 113 MW · 23 5 Jul 2019 · 15 MW · 1 6 Jul 2019 · 125 MW · 3 8 Jul 2019 · 8 MW · 6 11 Jul 2019 · 2 MW · 1 14 Jul 2019 · 14 MW · 13 15 Jul 2019 · 11 MW · 2 16 Jul 2019 · 8 MW · 1
19 Jun 23 Jun 26 Jun 29 Jun 3 Jul 6 Jul 14 Jul

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

The weather it burned in

39°high
40km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity

It had gone 18 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 56 ha in 2016, 62 ha in 2018. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 91 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 8.2% of the area of London (130 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

  1. Khojavend District where it started
    4,841 ha reached on 19 Jun
    3.3 %
  2. Aghjabadi District
    4,753 ha reached on 24 Jun
    2.8 %
  3. Fuzuli District
    3,423 ha reached on 2 Jul
    2.4 %

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 2020
Built-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)
19 Jun 35.5 °C 26 % 27 km/h 0.4 mm High 32
20 Jun 36.0 °C 24 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
21 Jun 35.0 °C 30 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
22 Jun 36.0 °C 30 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
23 Jun 37.1 °C 29 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
24 Jun 36.7 °C 41 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
25 Jun 38.7 °C 23 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
26 Jun 38.5 °C 20 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
27 Jun 35.1 °C 33 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
28 Jun 34.0 °C 36 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
29 Jun 34.9 °C 38 % 28 km/h 0.9 mm High 25
30 Jun 26.8 °C 45 % 27 km/h 1.0 mm Moderate 17
1 Jul 23.8 °C 47 % 24 km/h 4.3 mm Very low 5
2 Jul 30.5 °C 30 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
3 Jul 32.3 °C 28 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
4 Jul 34.7 °C 28 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
5 Jul 36.1 °C 26 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
6 Jul 34.3 °C 32 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
7 Jul 34.5 °C 36 % 37 km/h 0.1 mm High 38
8 Jul 35.3 °C 29 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
9 Jul 33.9 °C 33 % 29 km/h 0.7 mm High 26
10 Jul 32.8 °C 43 % 31 km/h 1.0 mm Moderate 21
11 Jul 35.5 °C 37 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
12 Jul 37.5 °C 31 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
13 Jul 33.3 °C 40 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
14 Jul 31.2 °C 40 % 33 km/h 0.3 mm High 33
15 Jul 29.3 °C 50 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
16 Jul after 34.9 °C 37 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
17 Jul after 34.7 °C 39 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
18 Jul after 36.3 °C 30 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
19 Jul after 36.6 °C 33 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
20 Jul after 37.1 °C 28 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
21 Jul after 37.5 °C 29 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
22 Jul after 35.9 °C 38 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
23 Jul after 34.7 °C 38 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
24 Jul after 36.1 °C 31 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
25 Jul after 38.2 °C 28 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 36

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 12 Jun 2019
After · 22 Jul 2019

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 · 396Every 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 Khojavend District fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 19 June 2019 to 15 July 2019 (27 days). The perimeter dates it from 19 June 2019 to 8 July 2019.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 12,995 hectares (130.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Khojavend District (4,841 ha, 3.3 %); Aghjabadi District (4,753 ha, 2.8 %); Fuzuli District (3,423 ha, 2.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 38.7 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 49, 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

Satellite cross-check

History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Last day with fire: 8 July 2019 → 15 July 2019.

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 7 polygons grouped in this page.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 19 June 2019 to 8 July 2019. 396 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.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.