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Wildfires in Rhineland-Palatinate
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 428 km² of Rhineland-Palatinate at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 57 km², ranking 9th 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 123 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 35 km². The 2021–2025 average is 63% 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.
May, June and July together hold 45% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 1 May 2025, with detections in 44 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 428 km² with at least one detection, 16% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 301 | 70% |
| 2 years | 57 | 13% |
| 3 to 5 years | 49 | 11% |
| 6 to 10 years | 13 | 3.0% |
| 11 years or more | 8.8 | 2.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 49.75, 8.25 and holds 49% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 35 | 61 |
| 2013 | 38 | 76 |
| 2014 | 36 | 101 |
| 2015 | 46 | 107 |
| 2016 | 61 | 137 |
| 2017 | 50 | 117 |
| 2018 | 55 | 139 |
| 2019 | 57 | 136 |
| 2020 | 63 | 191 |
| 2021 | 42 | 140 |
| 2022 | 64 | 174 |
| 2023 | 71 | 142 |
| 2024 | 53 | 103 |
| 2025 | 123 | 230 |
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
- Baden-Württemberg116 km
- Saarland121 km
- Hessen131 km
- Moselle, France154 km
- Luxembourg, Luxembourg179 km
- Meurthe-et-Moselle, France182 km