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Wildfires in Hainaut
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 124 km² of Hainaut at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 27 km², ranking 3rd 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 2018, with 33 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 18 km². The 2021–2025 average is 12% 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.
May, June and July together hold 37% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 21 April 2015, with detections in 8 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 124 km² with at least one detection, 21% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 89 | 72% |
| 2 years | 9.5 | 7.7% |
| 3 to 5 years | 4.8 | 3.9% |
| 6 to 10 years | 6.4 | 5.2% |
| 11 years or more | 14 | 12% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 50.25, 3.75 and holds 54% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 26 | 380 |
| 2013 | 27 | 324 |
| 2014 | 24 | 437 |
| 2015 | 32 | 352 |
| 2016 | 26 | 293 |
| 2017 | 28 | 250 |
| 2018 | 33 | 425 |
| 2019 | 31 | 398 |
| 2020 | 26 | 361 |
| 2021 | 23 | 355 |
| 2022 | 24 | 329 |
| 2023 | 25 | 272 |
| 2024 | 18 | 192 |
| 2025 | 28 | 258 |
Other regions of Belgium
- Antwerp49 km² in an average year
- East Flanders33 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
- East Flanders111 km
- Zeeland, Netherlands111 km
- Antwerp116 km
- Pas-de-Calais, France119 km
- Liège151 km
- Limburg, Netherlands151 km