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Wildfires in North 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 195 km² of North Denmark at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 18 km², ranking 4th of 5 regions of Denmark.
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 30 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 7.4 km². The 2021–2025 average is 27% 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 34% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 4 September 2014, with detections in 10 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 195 km² with at least one detection, 2.4% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 181 | 93% |
| 2 years | 9.4 | 4.8% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1.3 | 0.7% |
| 6 to 10 years | 0.7 | 0.4% |
| 11 years or more | 2.7 | 1.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 57.25, 9.75 and holds 95% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 16 | 385 |
| 2013 | 28 | 457 |
| 2014 | 22 | 448 |
| 2015 | 16 | 398 |
| 2016 | 25 | 460 |
| 2017 | 10 | 389 |
| 2018 | 30 | 419 |
| 2019 | 14 | 412 |
| 2020 | 12 | 472 |
| 2021 | 24 | 421 |
| 2022 | 24 | 414 |
| 2023 | 7.4 | 336 |
| 2024 | 10 | 318 |
| 2025 | 14 | 396 |
Other regions of Denmark
- Zealand41 km² in an average year
- Southern Denmark38 km² in an average year
- Central Denmark30 km² in an average year
- Denmark5.9 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
- Västra Götaland, Sweden185 km
- Vest-Agder, Norway209 km
- Telemark, Norway222 km
- Rogaland, Norway344 km
- Schleswig-Holstein, Germany389 km
- Hamburg, Germany389 km