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Wildfires in Australia
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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- Australian Capital Territoryno fires now
- New South Wales31 fires
- Northern Territory141 fires
- Queensland105 fires
- South Australia4 fires
- Tasmania2 fires
- Victoria17 fires
- Western Australia16 fires
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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 2,876,050 km² of Australia at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 465,550 km², ranking 4th 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 2012, with 800,000 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 284,510 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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.
September, October and November together hold 39% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 22 October 2012, with detections in 15,455 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,876,050 km² with at least one detection, 29% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,429,760 | 50% |
| 2 years | 610,650 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 622,860 | 22% |
| 6 to 10 years | 203,210 | 7.1% |
| 11 years or more | 9,570 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -14.25, 129.75 and holds 0.4% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 800,000 | 909,461 |
| 2013 | 357,230 | 426,409 |
| 2014 | 477,040 | 561,131 |
| 2015 | 447,440 | 528,063 |
| 2016 | 323,980 | 377,776 |
| 2017 | 511,350 | 577,987 |
| 2018 | 561,560 | 665,047 |
| 2019 | 444,190 | 608,418 |
| 2020 | 284,510 | 372,618 |
| 2021 | 352,880 | 404,470 |
| 2022 | 351,670 | 393,257 |
| 2023 | 690,220 | 792,810 |
| 2024 | 402,520 | 456,570 |
| 2025 | 513,140 | 576,061 |
Nearby countries
- Papua New Guinea22,120 km² in an average year
- New Zealand1,880 km² in an average year
- Fiji1,730 km² in an average year
- New Caledonia584 km² in an average year
- Solomon Islands167 km² in an average year
- Vanuatu132 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
- Timor-Leste750 km
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What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
