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Wildfires in Kapan

Kapan, Armenia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 2,633 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 300 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 1 Very low 12° · 55 % · 27 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 11° · 72 % · 27 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 11° · 74 % · 25 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 15° · 34 % · 25 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 14° · 40 % · 26 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 5° · 82 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 4° · 95 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 4° · 92 % · 25 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,633
hectares burned
1.9 %
of its area
5
fires
1,372
km²

How many times has Kapan burned?

Kapan has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2019 and 2021. The most recent: Sisian fire, September 2021, with 16 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
2,633
cumulative ha
23 Sept 2021
most recent

Fires larger than 300 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Armenia →

Fires that entered Kapan

  1. 16 ha Sisian fire, September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 604 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 739 ha Kapan fire, 22 August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 737 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 672 ha Kapan fire, 20 August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 671 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 390 ha Kapan fire, 28 November 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 390 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 815 ha Kapan fire, 28 November 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 814 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Government of Armenia, OCHA ROCCA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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