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Wildfires in Afghanistan
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 6,280 km² of Afghanistan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 584 km², ranking 132nd of 200 countries.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2020, with 1,130 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 308 km². The 2021–2025 average is 26% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
June, July and August together hold 36% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 5 October 2020, with detections in 37 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 6,280 km² with at least one detection, 6.8% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 5,120 | 82% |
| 2 years | 732 | 12% |
| 3 to 5 years | 395 | 6.3% |
| 6 to 10 years | 31 | 0.5% |
| 11 years or more | 1.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 35.25, 71.25 and holds 7.3% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 628 | 966 |
| 2013 | 633 | 811 |
| 2014 | 579 | 628 |
| 2015 | 516 | 565 |
| 2016 | 741 | 860 |
| 2017 | 641 | 956 |
| 2018 | 480 | 594 |
| 2019 | 530 | 586 |
| 2020 | 1,130 | 1,342 |
| 2021 | 910 | 1,072 |
| 2022 | 308 | 359 |
| 2023 | 310 | 353 |
| 2024 | 317 | 412 |
| 2025 | 461 | 635 |
Nearby countries
- India324,930 km² in an average year
- Myanmar189,670 km² in an average year
- China182,410 km² in an average year
- Indonesia104,670 km² in an average year
- Thailand104,620 km² in an average year
- Lao PDR73,670 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby countries
- Pakistan405 km
- Tajikistan448 km
- Uzbekistan625 km
- Kyrgyzstan886 km
- Turkmenistan893 km
- Nepal1,260 km
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
