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Wildfires in Finland
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 1,420 km² of Finland at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 126 km², ranking 161st 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 2018, with 238 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 77 km². The 2021–2025 average is 21% 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.
May, June and July together hold 43% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 9 May 2018, with detections in 48 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,420 km² with at least one detection, 2.8% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,310 | 92% |
| 2 years | 71 | 5.0% |
| 3 to 5 years | 16 | 1.1% |
| 6 to 10 years | 8.4 | 0.6% |
| 11 years or more | 15 | 1.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 64.75, 24.25 and holds 39% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 95 | 696 |
| 2013 | 158 | 791 |
| 2014 | 147 | 765 |
| 2015 | 112 | 779 |
| 2016 | 142 | 760 |
| 2017 | 123 | 706 |
| 2018 | 238 | 1,111 |
| 2019 | 107 | 741 |
| 2020 | 128 | 900 |
| 2021 | 103 | 929 |
| 2022 | 77 | 695 |
| 2023 | 98 | 784 |
| 2024 | 119 | 740 |
| 2025 | 122 | 707 |
Nearby countries
- Russian Federation212,570 km² in an average year
- Ukraine35,560 km² in an average year
- Italy9,880 km² in an average year
- Romania7,650 km² in an average year
- Spain5,090 km² in an average year
- France3,350 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 countries
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
