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Wildfires in Astara District

Astara District, Azerbaijan, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 1,733 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 500 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. Tue 10 Very low 11° · 63 % · 24 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 11° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 15° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 16° · 53 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 19° · 51 % · 19 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 20° · 45 % · 21 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 14° · 87 % · 25 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 11° · 77 % · 18 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Astara District: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,733
hectares burned
2.7 %
of its area
2
fires
651
km²

How many times has Astara District burned?

Astara District has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2021. The most recent: Astara District fire, 15 January 2021, with 615 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
1,733
cumulative ha
15 Jan 2021
most recent

Fires larger than 500 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 Azerbaijan

Fires that entered Astara District

  1. 615 ha Astara District fire, 15 January 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 615 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,118 ha Astara District fire, 14 January 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,118 ha in total · 5 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Wikipedia (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported). 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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