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Wildfires in Minsk
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 2,440 km² of Minsk at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 206 km², ranking 5th 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 2014, with 537 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 58 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 66% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 March 2015, with detections in 62 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,440 km² with at least one detection, 3.1% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,130 | 87% |
| 2 years | 235 | 10% |
| 3 to 5 years | 66 | 2.7% |
| 6 to 10 years | 8.0 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 0.7 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 54.25, 28.25 and holds 11% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 259 | 370 |
| 2013 | 212 | 303 |
| 2014 | 537 | 780 |
| 2015 | 422 | 631 |
| 2016 | 144 | 207 |
| 2017 | 158 | 224 |
| 2018 | 206 | 307 |
| 2019 | 306 | 466 |
| 2020 | 170 | 243 |
| 2021 | 95 | 134 |
| 2022 | 140 | 201 |
| 2023 | 58 | 85 |
| 2024 | 59 | 90 |
| 2025 | 123 | 190 |
Other regions of Belarus
- Gomel496 km² in an average year
- Brest484 km² in an average year
- Mahilioŭ343 km² in an average year
- Vitebsk241 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
- Vitebsk85 km
- Gomel194 km
- Mahilioŭ235 km
- Pskov, Russian Federation255 km
- Smolensk, Russian Federation264 km
- Grodno285 km