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Wildfires in La Réunion
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 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 368 km² of La Réunion at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 53 km², ranking 12th of 101 regions of France.
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 2020, with 102 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 10 km². The 2021–2025 average is 10% 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.
September, October and November together hold 40% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 14 January 2022, with detections in 58 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 368 km² with at least one detection, 24% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 228 | 62% |
| 2 years | 52 | 14% |
| 3 to 5 years | 66 | 18% |
| 6 to 10 years | 22 | 6.0% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -21.25, 55.75 and holds 96% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 14 | 12 |
| 2013 | 43 | 40 |
| 2014 | 37 | 49 |
| 2015 | 76 | 1,002 |
| 2016 | 52 | 221 |
| 2017 | 46 | 481 |
| 2018 | 44 | 569 |
| 2019 | 86 | 473 |
| 2020 | 102 | 239 |
| 2021 | 64 | 339 |
| 2022 | 100 | 626 |
| 2023 | 54 | 242 |
| 2024 | 16 | 14 |
| 2025 | 10 | 9 |
Other regions of France
- French Guiana800 km² in an average year
- Pyrenees-Atlantics399 km² in an average year
- Bouches-du-Rhône149 km² in an average year
- Haute-Corse92 km² in an average year
- Gard78 km² in an average year
- Hérault72 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.