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Wildfires in Queensland
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 07:28 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 660,080 km² of Queensland at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 108,980 km², ranking 3rd 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 2012, with 187,950 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 75,210 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.
October, November and December together hold 55% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 5 December 2012, with detections in 5,181 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 660,080 km² with at least one detection, 34% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 282,540 | 43% |
| 2 years | 155,190 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 187,200 | 28% |
| 6 to 10 years | 34,430 | 5.2% |
| 11 years or more | 721 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -12.75, 142.25 and holds 0.9% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 187,950 | 230,487 |
| 2013 | 96,910 | 124,237 |
| 2014 | 104,460 | 129,178 |
| 2015 | 79,050 | 101,248 |
| 2016 | 97,410 | 118,280 |
| 2017 | 92,680 | 113,334 |
| 2018 | 115,200 | 148,043 |
| 2019 | 91,620 | 121,169 |
| 2020 | 94,530 | 125,080 |
| 2021 | 88,330 | 104,791 |
| 2022 | 75,210 | 82,928 |
| 2023 | 136,220 | 173,816 |
| 2024 | 126,860 | 147,529 |
| 2025 | 139,260 | 166,153 |
Other regions of Australia
- Northern Territory173,050 km² in an average year
- Western Australia142,180 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
- Tasmania1,940 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
- Western, Papua New Guinea457 km
- Papua, Indonesia473 km
- Gulf, Papua New Guinea664 km
- Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea670 km
- Central, Papua New Guinea686 km
- Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea741 km