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Wildfires in Sylhet
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 11:26 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 1,850 km² of Sylhet at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 302 km², ranking 4th 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 2014, with 509 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 105 km². The 2021–2025 average is 47% 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.
December, January and February together hold 59% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 1 December 2012, with detections in 34 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,850 km² with at least one detection, 27% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,010 | 55% |
| 2 years | 339 | 18% |
| 3 to 5 years | 327 | 18% |
| 6 to 10 years | 142 | 7.7% |
| 11 years or more | 26 | 1.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 24.25, 91.25 and holds 38% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 444 | 572 |
| 2013 | 351 | 446 |
| 2014 | 509 | 701 |
| 2015 | 461 | 675 |
| 2016 | 248 | 382 |
| 2017 | 323 | 478 |
| 2018 | 199 | 355 |
| 2019 | 285 | 443 |
| 2020 | 336 | 437 |
| 2021 | 272 | 409 |
| 2022 | 243 | 319 |
| 2023 | 220 | 288 |
| 2024 | 105 | 155 |
| 2025 | 234 | 272 |
Other regions of Bangladesh
- Chattogram4,450 km² in an average year
- Dhaka408 km² in an average year
- Rajshahi364 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
- Tripura, India75 km
- Dhaka75 km
- Meghalaya, India174 km
- Rajshahi202 km
- Assam, India230 km
- Manipur, India253 km