Skip to content
worldfires
en
KZ · Kazakhstan · Almaty Region

Wildfires in Balkhashskiy Балқаш ауданы

Balkhashskiy, Kazakhstan, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 125,457 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.3% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

Only fires of 3,000 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. Fri 30 Moderate 10° · 44 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Moderate 11° · 36 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Moderate 11° · 40 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Moderate 10° · 40 % · 12 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Moderate 12° · 34 % · 18 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Moderate 13° · 34 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 11° · 59 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 15° · 75 % · 26 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

125,457
hectares burned
3.3 %
of its area
17
fires
38,338
km²

How many times has Balkhashskiy burned?

Balkhashskiy has burned 17 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Balkhashskiy fire, 28 March 2026, with 5,683 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 125,457 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 103,215 hectares, 2.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6. 6× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
17
fires
6
years with fire
125,457
cumulative ha
103,215
distinct ha

Fires larger than 3,000 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 Kazakhstan →

Fires that entered Balkhashskiy

  1. 5,683 ha Balkhashskiy fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,679 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 3,360 ha Balkhashskiy fire, 20 March 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,366 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 15,899 ha Balkhashskiy fire, 19 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 15,952 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 9,112 ha Balkhashskiy fire, April 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,957 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 3,001 ha Balkhashskiy fire, March 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,010 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,476 ha Moyynkumskiy fire, March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,686 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 6,546 ha Balkhashskiy fire, April 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,438 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 10,634 ha Balkhashskiy fire, October 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 10,446 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 4,708 ha Balkhashskiy fire, 13 April 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 4,697 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 14,798 ha Balkhashskiy fire, 9 April 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 14,801 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 14,356 ha Balkhashskiy fire, 9 April 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 14,426 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 5,983 ha Balkhashskiy fire, 7 April 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,929 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 8,587 ha Balkhashskiy fire, 6 April 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,605 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 3,502 ha Balkhashskiy fire, 14 April 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,499 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 5,613 ha Balkhashskiy fire, 13 April 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,634 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 6,904 ha Balkhashskiy fire, 12 April 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,915 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 5,296 ha Balkhashskiy fire, April 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,206 ha in total · 6 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

Tell me what burns here

New fires in this area by RSS: paste the link into your reader, no email needed.

Follow by RSS