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Wildfires in Hamburg
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 73 km² of Hamburg at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 18 km², ranking 14th 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 2018, with 26 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 12 km². The 2021–2025 average is 19% 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.
July, August and September together hold 36% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 July 2012, with detections in 11 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 73 km² with at least one detection, 39% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 37 | 50% |
| 2 years | 7.4 | 10% |
| 3 to 5 years | 12 | 16% |
| 6 to 10 years | 12 | 16% |
| 11 years or more | 5.2 | 7.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 53.75, 9.75 and holds 56% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 24 | 474 |
| 2013 | 16 | 465 |
| 2014 | 18 | 543 |
| 2015 | 15 | 491 |
| 2016 | 18 | 515 |
| 2017 | 13 | 497 |
| 2018 | 26 | 548 |
| 2019 | 24 | 472 |
| 2020 | 19 | 524 |
| 2021 | 12 | 372 |
| 2022 | 21 | 365 |
| 2023 | 12 | 392 |
| 2024 | 14 | 292 |
| 2025 | 15 | 370 |
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
- Baden-Württemberg105 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
- Schleswig-Holstein0 km
- Free Hanseatic Bremen86 km
- Lower Saxony170 km
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania230 km
- Thuringia280 km
- West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland295 km