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Wildfires in Bavaria
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 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 1,900 km² of Bavaria at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 230 km², ranking 1st 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 506 km² detected; the quietest was 2014, with 128 km². The 2021–2025 average is 122% 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 7 September 2023, with detections in 135 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,900 km² with at least one detection, 14% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,310 | 69% |
| 2 years | 319 | 17% |
| 3 to 5 years | 219 | 12% |
| 6 to 10 years | 35 | 1.9% |
| 11 years or more | 19 | 1.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 48.75, 10.75 and holds 33% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 195 | 666 |
| 2013 | 133 | 534 |
| 2014 | 128 | 554 |
| 2015 | 140 | 648 |
| 2016 | 153 | 634 |
| 2017 | 154 | 709 |
| 2018 | 232 | 872 |
| 2019 | 195 | 817 |
| 2020 | 231 | 863 |
| 2021 | 210 | 733 |
| 2022 | 273 | 677 |
| 2023 | 354 | 729 |
| 2024 | 322 | 615 |
| 2025 | 506 | 946 |
Other regions of Germany
- 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
- Baden-Württemberg105 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
- Rhineland-Palatinate212 km
- Baden-Württemberg219 km
- Hessen247 km
- Lucerne, Switzerland249 km
- Upper Austria, Austria263 km
- Solothurn, Switzerland278 km