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Wildfires in Bhutan
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 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 4,530 km² of Bhutan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 543 km², ranking 136th 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 2012, with 1,140 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 328 km². The 2021–2025 average is 45% 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.
February, March and April together hold 69% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 1 April 2012, with detections in 117 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,530 km² with at least one detection, 16% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,890 | 64% |
| 2 years | 914 | 20% |
| 3 to 5 years | 627 | 14% |
| 6 to 10 years | 90 | 2.0% |
| 11 years or more | 4.4 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 27.25, 91.25 and holds 20% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,140 | 1,334 |
| 2013 | 559 | 607 |
| 2014 | 1,000 | 1,212 |
| 2015 | 668 | 782 |
| 2016 | 524 | 598 |
| 2017 | 487 | 556 |
| 2018 | 390 | 419 |
| 2019 | 372 | 402 |
| 2020 | 328 | 359 |
| 2021 | 507 | 557 |
| 2022 | 356 | 368 |
| 2023 | 457 | 512 |
| 2024 | 476 | 507 |
| 2025 | 337 | 388 |
Nearby countries
- India324,930 km² in an average year
- Myanmar189,670 km² in an average year
- China182,410 km² in an average year
- Indonesia104,670 km² in an average year
- Thailand104,620 km² in an average year
- Lao PDR73,670 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.
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What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
