Wildfires in Shirak
Shirak, Armenia: 12 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 5 municipalities since 2016, burning 4,864 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ashotck in November 2025, with 974 hectares inside the region. 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.
- hectares burned
- 4,864ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.7%
- 2,807 km²
- fires
- 12
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 5
- Largest fire
- 974ha
- Ashotck · November 2025
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 3 Very low 15° · 47 % · 20 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 14° · 60 % · 26 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 13° · 59 % · 31 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 10° · 44 % · 20 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 11° · 59 % · 24 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 7° · 48 % · 31 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 4° · 40 % · 27 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 4° · 40 % · 22 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 974 haAshotckNovember 2025 · 4 days
- 575 haAniSeptember 2024 · 1 day
- 556 haAni7 September 2016 · 1 day
- 479 haArtikSeptember 2026 · 1 day
- 436 haArtikOctober 2018 · 1 day
- 352 haAniSeptember 2026 · 1 day
- 321 haAshotckOctober 2018 · 1 day
- 313 haArtikSeptember 2022 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Shirak · 12
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 352 haAniSeptember 2026 · 1 day
- 81 haTalinSeptember 2026 · 3 days of 354 ha in total
- 479 haArtikSeptember 2026 · 1 day
- 974 haAshotckNovember 2025 · 4 days
- 236 haSpitak21 November 2025 · 10 days of 4,534 ha in total
- 575 haAniSeptember 2024 · 1 day
- 313 haArtikSeptember 2022 · 1 day
- 436 haArtikOctober 2018 · 1 day
- 321 haAshotckOctober 2018 · 1 day
- 236 haTalinSeptember 2016 · 2 days of 336 ha in total
- 556 haAni7 September 2016 · 1 day
- 304 haAni7 September 2016 · 1 day
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).
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