AURSEE31,720 fires nowSign in

Aursee

Wildfires in Bahrain

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC

Follow Bahrain: fire alerts by email

No fires detected in Bahrain in the last 24 hours.

Regions

Fire alerts for Bahrain

Free. One email when satellites detect fire anywhere in Bahrain, then at most one update a day while fires continue.

Free. Pick a town and we email you when satellites detect fire within 30 km of it.

30 km around Al Muharraq, Muharraq, Bahrain

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 218 km² of Bahrain at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 74 km², ranking 168th of 200 countries.

74 km²detected in an average year
2020busiest year, 96 km²
2014quietest year, 62 km²
Octoberpeak month, 10% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 70 km2'122013: 77 km2'132014: 62 km2'142015: 71 km2'152016: 65 km2'162017: 69 km2'172018: 79 km2'182019: 84 km2'192020: 96 km2'202021: 78 km2'212022: 74 km2'222023: 68 km2'232024: 77 km2'242025: 69 km2'2596 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2020, with 96 km² detected; the quietest was 2014, with 62 km². The 2021–2025 average is 5.8% higher than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 10%JFebruary: 9.0%FMarch: 8.7%MApril: 7.4%AMay: 7.3%MJune: 7.9%JJuly: 6.4%JAugust: 7.4%ASeptember: 8.2%SOctober: 10%ONovember: 8.5%NDecember: 10%D10%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

December, January and February together hold 28% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 30 December 2019, with detections in 15 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 218 km² with at least one detection, 51% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year6329%
2 years4420%
3 to 5 years3717%
6 to 10 years4119%
11 years or more3215%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 26.25, 50.75 and holds 89% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

Show the table
YearDetected km²Fire-days
201270679
201377954
201462661
201571581
201665686
201769701
201879694
2019841,186
2020961,074
202178929
202274710
202368686
202477703
202569579

Nearby countries

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

Embed this map on your site

A live map of the fires here, updated every hour. Paste the code into your page.

Wildfires in Bahrain

What sits behind each of these fires

Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.

What is actually burning
What is actually burningThe ESA WorldCover class under every detection, read at 10 m. Forest, cropland, shrub or built-up, named rather than guessed.
Has this ground burned before
Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.
Alerts that stay quiet
Alerts that stay quietA fire must miss two passes before we say it stopped and grow by more than half again before we say it spread. Nothing is said twice.