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Wildfires in Tibet
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 1,980 km² of Tibet at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 230 km², ranking 30th of 31 regions of China.
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 2025, with 438 km² detected; the quietest was 2019, with 156 km². The 2021–2025 average is 30% higher 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.
August, September and October together hold 30% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 20 December 2024, with detections in 61 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,980 km² with at least one detection, 11% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,500 | 76% |
| 2 years | 272 | 14% |
| 3 to 5 years | 125 | 6.3% |
| 6 to 10 years | 73 | 3.7% |
| 11 years or more | 12 | 0.6% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 29.75, 90.75 and holds 15% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 258 | 369 |
| 2013 | 207 | 288 |
| 2014 | 198 | 326 |
| 2015 | 233 | 493 |
| 2016 | 197 | 426 |
| 2017 | 184 | 496 |
| 2018 | 186 | 535 |
| 2019 | 156 | 463 |
| 2020 | 184 | 631 |
| 2021 | 270 | 703 |
| 2022 | 178 | 649 |
| 2023 | 221 | 917 |
| 2024 | 313 | 930 |
| 2025 | 438 | 1,276 |
Other regions of China
- Heilongjiang37,120 km² in an average year
- Jilin16,470 km² in an average year
- Yunnan15,170 km² in an average year
- Inner Mongolia11,850 km² in an average year
- Guangxi9,620 km² in an average year
- Liaoning8,350 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 regions
- Trashigang, Bhutan294 km
- Geylegphug, Bhutan333 km
- Samdrup Jongkhar, Bhutan347 km
- Mechi Zone, Nepal444 km
- Meghalaya, India455 km
- Bhojpur, Nepal478 km