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Wildfires in Dhaka
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 06:20 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 3,110 km² of Dhaka at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 408 km², ranking 2nd of 7 regions of Bangladesh.
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 2015, with 510 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 276 km². The 2021–2025 average is 7.3% 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.
February, March and April together hold 53% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 March 2025, with detections in 35 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,110 km² with at least one detection, 19% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,960 | 63% |
| 2 years | 555 | 18% |
| 3 to 5 years | 466 | 15% |
| 6 to 10 years | 112 | 3.6% |
| 11 years or more | 11 | 0.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 23.75, 90.75 and holds 31% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 276 | 319 |
| 2013 | 462 | 499 |
| 2014 | 506 | 590 |
| 2015 | 510 | 689 |
| 2016 | 397 | 434 |
| 2017 | 296 | 326 |
| 2018 | 465 | 627 |
| 2019 | 402 | 674 |
| 2020 | 399 | 639 |
| 2021 | 336 | 576 |
| 2022 | 340 | 555 |
| 2023 | 434 | 651 |
| 2024 | 395 | 633 |
| 2025 | 488 | 650 |
Other regions of Bangladesh
- Chattogram4,450 km² in an average year
- Rajshahi364 km² in an average year
- Sylhet302 km² in an average year
- Khulna219 km² in an average year
- Rangpur74 km² in an average year
- Barisal39 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
- Sylhet75 km
- Tripura, India101 km
- Rajshahi162 km
- Khulna203 km
- Meghalaya, India244 km
- Mizoram, India264 km