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Wildfires in Schleswig-Holstein
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 474 km² of Schleswig-Holstein at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 50 km², ranking 10th 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 2020, with 87 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 23 km². The 2021–2025 average is 42% 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 22 August 2023, with detections in 47 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 474 km² with at least one detection, 10% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 377 | 80% |
| 2 years | 49 | 10% |
| 3 to 5 years | 37 | 7.8% |
| 6 to 10 years | 9.4 | 2.0% |
| 11 years or more | 1.4 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 53.75, 9.75 and holds 47% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 29 | 112 |
| 2013 | 43 | 121 |
| 2014 | 46 | 120 |
| 2015 | 35 | 114 |
| 2016 | 33 | 101 |
| 2017 | 28 | 93 |
| 2018 | 65 | 191 |
| 2019 | 72 | 175 |
| 2020 | 87 | 206 |
| 2021 | 23 | 99 |
| 2022 | 31 | 129 |
| 2023 | 86 | 187 |
| 2024 | 45 | 108 |
| 2025 | 79 | 185 |
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
- Hamburg0 km
- Free Hanseatic Bremen86 km
- Lower Saxony170 km
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania230 km
- Thuringia280 km
- West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland295 km