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Wildfires in East Flanders
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 10:27 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 190 km² of East Flanders at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 33 km², ranking 2nd of 11 regions of Belgium.
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 46 km² detected; the quietest was 2017, with 25 km². The 2021–2025 average is 16% 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 31% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 5 June 2015, with detections in 12 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 190 km² with at least one detection, 24% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 114 | 60% |
| 2 years | 31 | 16% |
| 3 to 5 years | 27 | 14% |
| 6 to 10 years | 8.6 | 4.5% |
| 11 years or more | 9.3 | 4.9% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 51.25, 3.75 and holds 98% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 28 | 872 |
| 2013 | 38 | 1,016 |
| 2014 | 34 | 1,128 |
| 2015 | 36 | 1,078 |
| 2016 | 40 | 1,176 |
| 2017 | 25 | 1,157 |
| 2018 | 36 | 1,271 |
| 2019 | 29 | 1,161 |
| 2020 | 46 | 1,088 |
| 2021 | 27 | 1,132 |
| 2022 | 34 | 1,227 |
| 2023 | 32 | 1,066 |
| 2024 | 28 | 902 |
| 2025 | 27 | 1,276 |
Other regions of Belgium
- Antwerp49 km² in an average year
- Hainaut27 km² in an average year
- Liège17 km² in an average year
- West Flanders17 km² in an average year
- Limburg15 km² in an average year
- Namur7.5 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
- Zeeland, Netherlands0 km
- Antwerp34 km
- South Holland, Netherlands65 km
- Nord, France104 km
- Hainaut111 km
- Pas-de-Calais, France118 km