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Wildfires in Tasmania
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 20,210 km² of Tasmania at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,940 km², ranking 7th 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 2019, with 3,840 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 1,180 km². The 2021–2025 average is 22% 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 38% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 29 January 2019, with detections in 578 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 20,210 km² with at least one detection, 6.6% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 15,190 | 75% |
| 2 years | 3,680 | 18% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,310 | 6.5% |
| 6 to 10 years | 29 | 0.1% |
| 11 years or more | 4.6 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -40.75, 145.25 and holds 9.3% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,500 | 2,247 |
| 2013 | 2,360 | 3,750 |
| 2014 | 1,700 | 2,615 |
| 2015 | 1,610 | 2,690 |
| 2016 | 3,010 | 5,515 |
| 2017 | 1,620 | 2,560 |
| 2018 | 1,810 | 2,853 |
| 2019 | 3,840 | 7,220 |
| 2020 | 1,690 | 2,717 |
| 2021 | 1,200 | 1,871 |
| 2022 | 1,180 | 1,870 |
| 2023 | 1,490 | 2,265 |
| 2024 | 1,810 | 2,731 |
| 2025 | 2,310 | 3,816 |
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
- Victoria467 km
- Australian Capital Territory634 km
- New South Wales870 km
- South Australia1,066 km