Wildfires in Ararat
Ararat, Armenia: 6 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 3 municipalities since 2016, burning 4,417 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ararat in August 2017, with 2,733 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).
Only fires of 300 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 4,417ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.3%
- 1,929 km²
- fires
- 6
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 3
- Largest fire
- 2,733ha
- Ararat · August 2017
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 2 Very low 16° · 52 % · 17 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 15° · 56 % · 18 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 15° · 59 % · 20 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 14° · 65 % · 17 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 10° · 78 % · 15 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 14° · 55 % · 24 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 7° · 83 % · 22 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 3° · 60 % · 20 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 2,733 haAraratAugust 2017 · 4 days
- 560 haAraratAugust 2019 · 1 day
- 529 haArtashatAugust 2016 · 3 days
- 292 haAraratJuly 2019 · 1 day of 316 ha in total
- 245 haMasisJune 2026 · 1 day of 306 ha in total
- 58 haVagharshapatFebruary 2026 · 5 days of 303 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Ararat · 6
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic). 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.