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Wildfires in Belgium
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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- Antwerp2 fires
- East Flanders1 fire
- Flemish Brabantno fires now
- Hainaut3 fires
- Limburgno fires now
- Liège2 fires
- Luxembourgno fires now
- Namurno fires now
- West Flandersno fires now
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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 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 1,230 km² of Belgium at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 184 km², ranking 152nd of 200 countries.
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 2020, with 227 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 110 km². The 2021–2025 average is 10% 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.
July, August and September together hold 35% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 18 September 2020, with detections in 36 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,230 km² with at least one detection, 17% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 856 | 69% |
| 2 years | 162 | 13% |
| 3 to 5 years | 126 | 10% |
| 6 to 10 years | 44 | 3.6% |
| 11 years or more | 45 | 3.7% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 51.25, 3.75 and holds 48% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 181 | 2,110 |
| 2013 | 185 | 2,156 |
| 2014 | 178 | 2,447 |
| 2015 | 189 | 2,311 |
| 2016 | 195 | 2,313 |
| 2017 | 169 | 2,248 |
| 2018 | 210 | 2,702 |
| 2019 | 196 | 2,500 |
| 2020 | 227 | 2,325 |
| 2021 | 184 | 2,259 |
| 2022 | 183 | 2,365 |
| 2023 | 174 | 2,033 |
| 2024 | 110 | 1,636 |
| 2025 | 190 | 2,309 |
Nearby countries
- Russian Federation212,570 km² in an average year
- Ukraine35,560 km² in an average year
- Italy9,880 km² in an average year
- Romania7,650 km² in an average year
- Spain5,090 km² in an average year
- France3,350 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 countries
- Netherlands130 km
- Germany208 km
- Luxembourg218 km
- United Kingdom521 km
- Switzerland551 km
- Denmark772 km
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
