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Wildfires in Central Denmark

Region of Denmark

Wildfires in Central Denmark

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 333 km² of Central Denmark at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 30 km², ranking 3rd of 5 regions of Denmark.

30 km²detected in an average year
2025busiest year, 44 km²
2024quietest year, 17 km²
Augustpeak month, 22% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 28 km2'122013: 33 km2'132014: 43 km2'142015: 30 km2'152016: 32 km2'162017: 20 km2'172018: 31 km2'182019: 23 km2'192020: 29 km2'202021: 24 km2'212022: 37 km2'222023: 24 km2'232024: 17 km2'242025: 44 km2'2544 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2025, with 44 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 17 km². The 2021–2025 average is 12% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 1.1%JFebruary: 1.6%FMarch: 11%MApril: 11%AMay: 14%MJune: 10%JJuly: 8.7%JAugust: 22%ASeptember: 11%SOctober: 7.0%ONovember: 1.7%NDecember: 0.3%D22%

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 42% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 7 May 2025, with detections in 17 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 333 km² with at least one detection, 5.0% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year29388%
2 years237.0%
3 to 5 years144.1%
6 to 10 years1.40.4%
11 years or more1.40.4%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 56.25, 10.25 and holds 38% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20122853
20133355
20144372
20153050
20163250
20172037
20183177
20192361
20202987
20212467
20223789
20232442
20241752
202544103

Other regions of Denmark

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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