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Wildfires in Australian Capital Territory
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 1,240 km² of Australian Capital Territory at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 107 km², ranking 8th of 10 regions of Australia.
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 949 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 4.0 km². The 2021–2025 average is 51% 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.
January, February and March together hold 77% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 1 February 2020, with detections in 296 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,240 km² with at least one detection, 3.0% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,020 | 82% |
| 2 years | 180 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 36 | 2.9% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1.0 | 0.1% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -35.75, 148.75 and holds 54% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 12 | 13 |
| 2013 | 78 | 92 |
| 2014 | 17 | 18 |
| 2015 | 73 | 129 |
| 2016 | 92 | 143 |
| 2017 | 44 | 86 |
| 2018 | 50 | 92 |
| 2019 | 53 | 71 |
| 2020 | 949 | 1,722 |
| 2021 | 13 | 16 |
| 2022 | 4.0 | 7 |
| 2023 | 17 | 20 |
| 2024 | 56 | 83 |
| 2025 | 42 | 67 |
Other regions of Australia
- Northern Territory173,050 km² in an average year
- Western Australia142,180 km² in an average year
- Queensland108,980 km² in an average year
- New South Wales24,100 km² in an average year
- Victoria8,760 km² in an average year
- South Australia6,430 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 regions
- Victoria172 km
- New South Wales246 km
- Tasmania634 km
- South Australia1,044 km