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Wildfires in Baden-Württemberg

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 11:26 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 754 km² of Baden-Württemberg at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 105 km², ranking 6th of 16 regions of Germany.
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 149 km² detected; the quietest was 2014, with 81 km². The 2021–2025 average is 15% 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 47% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 1 May 2025, with detections in 32 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 754 km² with at least one detection, 16% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 527 | 70% |
| 2 years | 104 | 14% |
| 3 to 5 years | 78 | 10% |
| 6 to 10 years | 25 | 3.4% |
| 11 years or more | 20 | 2.6% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 48.75, 7.75 and holds 31% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 104 | 619 |
| 2013 | 89 | 657 |
| 2014 | 81 | 621 |
| 2015 | 111 | 601 |
| 2016 | 97 | 614 |
| 2017 | 108 | 727 |
| 2018 | 116 | 872 |
| 2019 | 116 | 595 |
| 2020 | 94 | 560 |
| 2021 | 88 | 499 |
| 2022 | 121 | 594 |
| 2023 | 102 | 450 |
| 2024 | 96 | 431 |
| 2025 | 149 | 582 |
Other regions of Germany
- Bavaria230 km² in an average year
- North Rhine-Westphalia172 km² in an average year
- Lower Saxony131 km² in an average year
- Brandenburg116 km² in an average year
- Saxony-Anhalt112 km² in an average year
- Saxony70 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
- Saarland91 km
- Meurthe-et-Moselle, France109 km
- Rhineland-Palatinate116 km
- Moselle, France122 km
- Solothurn, Switzerland166 km
- Lucerne, Switzerland170 km