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Wildfires in Gomel
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 5,480 km² of Gomel at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 496 km², ranking 1st of 7 regions of Belarus.
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 1,460 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 114 km². The 2021–2025 average is 70% 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.
March, April and May together hold 42% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 14 October 2014, with detections in 149 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 5,480 km² with at least one detection, 4.6% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 4,470 | 82% |
| 2 years | 760 | 14% |
| 3 to 5 years | 234 | 4.3% |
| 6 to 10 years | 7.0 | 0.1% |
| 11 years or more | 9.1 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 52.75, 29.75 and holds 25% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 281 | 882 |
| 2013 | 219 | 893 |
| 2014 | 1,310 | 2,816 |
| 2015 | 1,460 | 3,572 |
| 2016 | 192 | 884 |
| 2017 | 494 | 1,252 |
| 2018 | 454 | 1,415 |
| 2019 | 806 | 2,027 |
| 2020 | 705 | 1,648 |
| 2021 | 244 | 981 |
| 2022 | 278 | 964 |
| 2023 | 114 | 1,011 |
| 2024 | 149 | 1,026 |
| 2025 | 245 | 1,007 |
Other regions of Belarus
- Brest484 km² in an average year
- Mahilioŭ343 km² in an average year
- Vitebsk241 km² in an average year
- Minsk206 km² in an average year
- Grodno108 km² in an average year
- City of Minsk4.8 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
- Kyiv, Ukraine166 km
- Mahilioŭ173 km
- Minsk194 km
- Brest203 km
- Chernihiv, Ukraine215 km
- Vitebsk224 km