Burned area
satellite only955ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 18 Jul 2019 – 18 Jul 2019
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AZ · Azerbaijan ·
Zangilan District fire, 18 July 2019 Zangilan District
Out · last measured on 18 Jul 2019
The fire started on 18 July 2019 in Zangilan District, Azerbaijan, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 955 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 104th largest in Contiguous Azerbaijan since 2016 (of 278 with a page). Number 31 in Azerbaijan in 2019, of 74.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only1day
18 Jul 2019 to 18 Jul 2019: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 18 Jul 2019 – 18 Jul 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 only18 Jul 2019
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 18 Jul 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
model30.8FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 16.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 18 Jul 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
model34.9°C · 29% RH
High of 34.9 °C and minimum humidity of 29% on 18 July 2019; gusts of 28 km/h on 18 July 2019.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 18 Jul 2019 – 18 Jul 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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- Area
- 955 ha
- Dates
- 18 Jul 2019 – 18 Jul 2019
- Name
- Zangilan District
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/zangilan-district-2019-07-2?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.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire zangilan-district-2019-07-2.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-18 | 0 | 0 | 34.9 | 21.5 | 29 | 8.9 | 27.7 | 0 | 30.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2019-07-19 | 0 | 0 | 34.3 | 19.7 | 28 | 12.5 | 32.4 | 0 | 34.2 | alto | 0 |
| 2019-07-20 | 0 | 0 | 34.5 | 21.3 | 26 | 11.8 | 33.1 | 0 | 35.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2019-07-21 | 0 | 0 | 35.3 | 20.7 | 27 | 10.1 | 29.5 | 0 | 33.9 | alto | 0 |
| 2019-07-22 | 0 | 0 | 35.6 | 21.4 | 29 | 11.6 | 32 | 0 | 35.5 | alto | 0 |
| 2019-07-23 | 0 | 0 | 33.2 | 22.6 | 32 | 12 | 30.6 | 0 | 36.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2019-07-24 | 0 | 0 | 35.2 | 23.6 | 29 | 9.4 | 28.8 | 0 | 34.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2019-07-25 | 0 | 0 | 36.5 | 19.9 | 23 | 10.8 | 26.6 | 0 | 37.8 | alto | 0 |
| 2019-07-26 | 0 | 0 | 33.2 | 23.6 | 35 | 10.4 | 30.2 | 0 | 34.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2019-07-27 | 0 | 0 | 30.4 | 22 | 37 | 9.8 | 28.8 | 0 | 31.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2019-07-28 | 0 | 0 | 29.8 | 19.1 | 41 | 9.5 | 27.7 | 0 | 28.6 | alto | 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
- 955ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 1day
- 18 Jul 2019 – 18 Jul 2019
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- districts
- Started on
- 18 Jul
- 2019
- Danger at start
- 31
- High · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
35°high
28km/h · peak gust
29%lowest humidity
It had gone 16 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
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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Zangilan District where it started959 ha1.2 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Jul | 34.9 °C | 29 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 19 Jul after | 34.3 °C | 28 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 20 Jul after | 34.5 °C | 26 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 21 Jul after | 35.3 °C | 27 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 22 Jul after | 35.6 °C | 29 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 23 Jul after | 33.2 °C | 32 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 24 Jul after | 35.2 °C | 29 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 25 Jul after | 36.5 °C | 23 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 26 Jul after | 33.2 °C | 35 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 27 Jul after | 30.4 °C | 37 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 28 Jul after | 29.8 °C | 41 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
Its twins: fires that started in the same weather
It started with an FWI of 30.8, a minimum humidity of 29% and 16 days without rain. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 25.
FWI at the start
30.8
Minimum humidity
29 %
Days without rain
16
this fire
chosen twins
rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar
Outlines of the closest twins
This fire · Zangilan District fire, 18 July 2019
955 ha
1 day
FWI 30.8
Min. humidity 29 %
Qubadli District fire, July 2017
723 ha
4 days
FWI 32.0
Min. humidity 30 %
15 km away, in 2017
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.
Khojaly District fire, August 2019
858 ha
1 day
FWI 29.5
Min. humidity 30 %
81 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.0 mm on 30 Aug.
Tartar District fire, August 2019
983 ha
3 days
FWI 29.8
Min. humidity 28 %
114 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 2.7 mm on 30 Aug.
Khojavend District fire, June 2019
1,103 ha
5 days
FWI 28.9
Min. humidity 29 %
33 km away, in 2019
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 4.2 mm on 1 Jul.
Khojavend District fire, September 2018
1,035 ha
3 days
FWI 29.1
Min. humidity 31 %
38 km away, in 2018
First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: 3.5 mm on 18 Sept.
What happened to them
- 2 days
- median duration
- 857 ha
- median area
- 32 %
- went past 1,000 ha
- 3.0 mm
- rain at the end (median; 20 of 25 had it)
It burned an area similar to its twins (955 ha against a median of 857 ha) and lasted 1 day, against 2 days.
In 5 of 25, 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 3.0 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
—first rain
—no rain in ten days
28km/h · max. gust
It was considered over on 18 Jul, and not even 1 mm fell in the following ten days: it went out without rain. Twins with rain when they ended: 20 of 25, with a median of 3.0 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
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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Before · 11 Jul 2019
After · 25 Jul 2019
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Other fires nearby
- 3,235 haJabrayil District22 June 2019 · 2 days · 21 km away
- 2,142 haJabrayil DistrictAugust 2017 · 3 days · 21 km away
- 3,777 haQubadli DistrictAugust 2019 · 3 days · 25 km away
- 3,073 haJabrayil District24 June 2019 · 4 days · 26 km away
- 4,856 haQubadli District16 June 2021 · 16 days · 27 km away
- 2,164 haJabrayil District22 June 2019 · 2 days · 27 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Zangilan District fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 18 July 2019 and 18 July 2019: 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 955 hectares (9.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Zangilan District (959 ha, 1.2 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 34.9 °C, humidity dropped to 29 % and gusts hit 28 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, 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.
- 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: 25. Their median duration was 2 days and their median area 857 ha; 32 % went past 1,000 ha. In 5 of 25, 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 3.0 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
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History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night 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.