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Wildfires in Thuringia
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 434 km² of Thuringia at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 49 km², ranking 11th 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 75 km² detected; the quietest was 2013, with 26 km². The 2021–2025 average is 48% 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 43% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 15 May 2022, with detections in 16 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 434 km² with at least one detection, 12% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 325 | 75% |
| 2 years | 58 | 13% |
| 3 to 5 years | 38 | 8.6% |
| 6 to 10 years | 9.4 | 2.2% |
| 11 years or more | 3.9 | 0.9% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 51.25, 10.25 and holds 44% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 38 | 187 |
| 2013 | 26 | 167 |
| 2014 | 35 | 214 |
| 2015 | 55 | 255 |
| 2016 | 33 | 249 |
| 2017 | 38 | 228 |
| 2018 | 75 | 343 |
| 2019 | 64 | 288 |
| 2020 | 54 | 283 |
| 2021 | 30 | 191 |
| 2022 | 66 | 282 |
| 2023 | 43 | 218 |
| 2024 | 62 | 210 |
| 2025 | 73 | 238 |
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
- Hessen89 km
- Saxony-Anhalt104 km
- Lower Saxony111 km
- Saxony208 km
- Rhineland-Palatinate218 km
- North Rhine-Westphalia243 km