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Wildfires in French Polynesia
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 139 km² of French Polynesia at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 11 km², ranking 190th 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 2012, with 24 km² detected; the quietest was 2017, with 4.6 km². The 2021–2025 average is 30% 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 37% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 February 2012, with detections in 4 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 139 km² with at least one detection, 3.4% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 126 | 91% |
| 2 years | 8.5 | 6.1% |
| 3 to 5 years | 4.7 | 3.4% |
| 6 to 10 years | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -8.75, -140.25 and holds 21% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 24 | 24 |
| 2013 | 19 | 16 |
| 2014 | 8.4 | 7 |
| 2015 | 8.3 | 8 |
| 2016 | 8.3 | 7 |
| 2017 | 4.6 | 4 |
| 2018 | 7.3 | 10 |
| 2019 | 19 | 19 |
| 2020 | 12 | 10 |
| 2021 | 12 | 10 |
| 2022 | 14 | 13 |
| 2023 | 7.2 | 6 |
| 2024 | 8.2 | 7 |
| 2025 | 6.0 | 6 |
Nearby countries
- Australia465,550 km² in an average year
- Papua New Guinea22,120 km² in an average year
- New Zealand1,880 km² in an average year
- Fiji1,730 km² in an average year
- New Caledonia584 km² in an average year
- Solomon Islands167 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.
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What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
