Kazakhstan

Brief · 19 September 2026

This is the most recent brief; none has been generated since 19 September 2026. The event list below is current.

Kazakhstan experienced multiple significant wildfire events over the past week, with several large forest fires burning simultaneously across the country. Satellite data recorded fire radiative power ranging up to 28,818 MW and burned areas as large as 8,197 hectares at individual sites, with detections spanning from new outbreaks to fires tracked since mid-August.

Wildfire Several forest fires are burning across Kazakhstan, tracked by GWIS via GDACS. One fire first tracked on 11 September has burned 8,197 hectares with a total fire radiative power of 28,818 MW and a peak FRP of 699 MW, while other ongoing fires first detected on 18 and 20 August have burned 6,857 and 7,525 hectares respectively. A separate wildfire event newly detected on 13 September recorded a total fire radiative power of 8,742 MW.

• A forest fire in Kazakhstan burning 8,197 hectares, first tracked on 11 September, recorded a total fire radiative power of 28,818 MW with no further ingest since.
• A wildfire in Kazakhstan first detected on 13 September was recorded with a total fire radiative power of 8,742 MW.

Summarised from Hazardly's tracked events for the seven days to 19 September 2026 · no external sources. Generated by claude-sonnet-5 at 19 Sept, 20:42 UTC, not reviewed by a person before publication. Outbreak lines name the disease and country only; WHO's bulletin text is on each outbreak's event page.