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Wildfires in Germany
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Regions
- Baden-Württembergno fires now
- Bavaria1 fire
- Brandenburg2 fires
- Free Hanseatic Bremen1 fire
- Hamburg1 fire
- Hessenno fires now
- Lower Saxony2 fires
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomeraniano fires now
- North Rhine-Westphalia2 fires
- Rhineland-Palatinateno fires now
- Saarland1 fire
- Saxonyno fires now
- Saxony-Anhaltno fires now
- Schleswig-Holsteinno fires now
- Thuringia1 fire
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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 9,780 km² of Germany at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,260 km², ranking 111th 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 2025, with 2,020 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 893 km². The 2021–2025 average is 39% 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.
June, July and August together hold 38% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 11 August 2025, with detections in 246 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 9,780 km² with at least one detection, 15% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 6,990 | 72% |
| 2 years | 1,350 | 14% |
| 3 to 5 years | 999 | 10% |
| 6 to 10 years | 241 | 2.5% |
| 11 years or more | 196 | 2.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 51.25, 6.75 and holds 21% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,090 | 9,589 |
| 2013 | 940 | 9,140 |
| 2014 | 947 | 10,520 |
| 2015 | 1,060 | 10,687 |
| 2016 | 1,080 | 10,590 |
| 2017 | 954 | 10,211 |
| 2018 | 1,630 | 13,571 |
| 2019 | 1,480 | 11,795 |
| 2020 | 1,360 | 11,236 |
| 2021 | 893 | 9,239 |
| 2022 | 1,420 | 10,925 |
| 2023 | 1,420 | 9,680 |
| 2024 | 1,340 | 8,376 |
| 2025 | 2,020 | 10,907 |
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
- Netherlands176 km
- Luxembourg181 km
- Belgium208 km
- Switzerland457 km
- Austria633 km
- Denmark694 km
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
