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Wildfires in Syunik

Syunik, Armenia: 34 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 4 municipalities since 2016, burning 22,855 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sisian in 12 September 2022, with 2,486 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
22,855ha
Since 2016
Of the region
5.1%
4,469 km²
fires
34
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 4
Largest fire
2,486ha
Sisian · 12 September 2022
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 10 Very low -0° · 49 % · 23 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 1° · 40 % · 19 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 6° · 35 % · 30 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 9° · 40 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 11° · 35 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 11° · 39 % · 25 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 3° · 82 % · 20 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 4° · 91 % · 20 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Sisian 12,668 ha · 7.4 %
  2. Meghri 4,997 ha · 7.2 %
  3. Kapan 2,633 ha · 1.9 %
  4. Goris 2,557 ha · 3.5 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (300 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202564,433 Meghri 1,658 ha
20232738 Goris 415 ha
202222,963 Sisian 2,486 ha
202122,169 Meghri 1,566 ha
201973,924 Sisian 801 ha
201821,007 Sisian 704 ha
201763,253 Sisian 942 ha
201674,368 Meghri 1,408 ha

All fires in Syunik · 34

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).

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