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Wildfires in Lower Austria
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 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 310 km² of Lower Austria at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 37 km², ranking 1st of 9 regions of Austria.
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 2025, with 63 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 19 km². The 2021–2025 average is 12% higher 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 53% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 June 2012, with detections in 11 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 310 km² with at least one detection, 13% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 223 | 72% |
| 2 years | 47 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 30 | 10% |
| 6 to 10 years | 5.7 | 1.8% |
| 11 years or more | 4.2 | 1.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 47.75, 16.75 and holds 50% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 48 | 128 |
| 2013 | 41 | 135 |
| 2014 | 30 | 111 |
| 2015 | 41 | 126 |
| 2016 | 23 | 96 |
| 2017 | 36 | 150 |
| 2018 | 26 | 128 |
| 2019 | 43 | 123 |
| 2020 | 19 | 59 |
| 2021 | 33 | 84 |
| 2022 | 45 | 104 |
| 2023 | 38 | 109 |
| 2024 | 26 | 53 |
| 2025 | 63 | 122 |
Other regions of Austria
- Upper Austria20 km² in an average year
- Styria17 km² in an average year
- Burgenland9.3 km² in an average year
- Carinthia7.5 km² in an average year
- Vienna6.1 km² in an average year
- Tyrol4.2 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
- Bratislava, Slovakia66 km
- South Moravian, Czech Republic166 km
- Dunaújváros, Hungary187 km
- Upper Austria194 km
- Baranya, Hungary235 km
- Žilina, Slovakia248 km