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Wildfires in Lower Saxony
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 1,130 km² of Lower Saxony at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 131 km², ranking 3rd 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 199 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 75 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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 35% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 22 April 2019, with detections in 68 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,130 km² with at least one detection, 11% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 862 | 76% |
| 2 years | 139 | 12% |
| 3 to 5 years | 94 | 8.3% |
| 6 to 10 years | 10 | 0.9% |
| 11 years or more | 22 | 2.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 52.25, 10.25 and holds 70% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 128 | 1,655 |
| 2013 | 105 | 1,474 |
| 2014 | 113 | 1,853 |
| 2015 | 125 | 1,760 |
| 2016 | 131 | 1,818 |
| 2017 | 125 | 1,716 |
| 2018 | 199 | 2,409 |
| 2019 | 190 | 2,070 |
| 2020 | 137 | 1,876 |
| 2021 | 75 | 1,436 |
| 2022 | 154 | 1,835 |
| 2023 | 102 | 1,646 |
| 2024 | 77 | 1,539 |
| 2025 | 178 | 1,931 |
Other regions of Germany
- Bavaria230 km² in an average year
- North Rhine-Westphalia172 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
- Thuringia111 km
- Free Hanseatic Bremen150 km
- Saxony-Anhalt151 km
- Schleswig-Holstein170 km
- Hamburg170 km
- Hessen180 km