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Wildfires in Northern
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 2,100 km² of Northern at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 466 km², ranking 2nd of 4 regions of Fiji.
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 2014, with 986 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 236 km². The 2021–2025 average is 7.3% 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.
August, September and October together hold 69% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 August 2014, with detections in 45 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,100 km² with at least one detection, 51% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 610 | 29% |
| 2 years | 418 | 20% |
| 3 to 5 years | 772 | 37% |
| 6 to 10 years | 285 | 14% |
| 11 years or more | 11 | 0.5% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -16.75, 178.75 and holds 51% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 330 | 343 |
| 2013 | 308 | 350 |
| 2014 | 986 | 1,325 |
| 2015 | 501 | 639 |
| 2016 | 456 | 600 |
| 2017 | 376 | 497 |
| 2018 | 518 | 720 |
| 2019 | 311 | 405 |
| 2020 | 342 | 499 |
| 2021 | 592 | 718 |
| 2022 | 236 | 223 |
| 2023 | 548 | 626 |
| 2024 | 552 | 693 |
| 2025 | 464 | 561 |
Other regions of Fiji
- Western1,170 km² in an average year
- Eastern69 km² in an average year
- Central22 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
- Western153 km
- Haʻapai, Tonga715 km
- Tafea, Vanuatu1,056 km
- Malampa, Vanuatu1,120 km
- South, New Caledonia1,445 km