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Wildfires in Saxony
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 631 km² of Saxony at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 70 km², ranking 7th 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 2024, with 103 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 27 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.
May, June and July together hold 59% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 1 May 2012, with detections in 48 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 631 km² with at least one detection, 13% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 452 | 72% |
| 2 years | 96 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 72 | 11% |
| 6 to 10 years | 8.6 | 1.4% |
| 11 years or more | 1.6 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 51.25, 13.25 and holds 18% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 93 | 209 |
| 2013 | 41 | 90 |
| 2014 | 82 | 136 |
| 2015 | 61 | 112 |
| 2016 | 63 | 89 |
| 2017 | 66 | 99 |
| 2018 | 94 | 148 |
| 2019 | 76 | 112 |
| 2020 | 43 | 58 |
| 2021 | 27 | 37 |
| 2022 | 72 | 99 |
| 2023 | 54 | 73 |
| 2024 | 103 | 142 |
| 2025 | 100 | 152 |
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
- Saxony-Anhalt104 km
- Brandenburg151 km
- Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland181 km
- Thuringia208 km
- Lower Saxony234 km
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania277 km