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Wildfires in Békés

County of Hungary

Wildfires in Békés

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 412 km² of Békés at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 36 km², ranking 5th of 43 regions of Hungary.

36 km²detected in an average year
2012busiest year, 91 km²
2023quietest year, 11 km²
Octoberpeak month, 23% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 91 km2'122013: 65 km2'132014: 52 km2'142015: 36 km2'152016: 24 km2'162017: 28 km2'172018: 51 km2'182019: 53 km2'192020: 21 km2'202021: 14 km2'212022: 27 km2'222023: 11 km2'232024: 15 km2'242025: 20 km2'2591 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2012, with 91 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 11 km². The 2021–2025 average is 67% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 0.7%JFebruary: 3.1%FMarch: 9.0%MApril: 6.5%AMay: 4.7%MJune: 11%JJuly: 10%JAugust: 13%ASeptember: 13%SOctober: 23%ONovember: 4.1%NDecember: 1.6%D23%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

August, September and October together hold 49% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 6 October 2012, with detections in 10 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 412 km² with at least one detection, 3.2% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year35586%
2 years4311%
3 to 5 years8.62.1%
6 to 10 years3.60.9%
11 years or more0.90.2%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 46.75, 21.25 and holds 44% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
201291113
20136582
20145267
20153644
20162440
20172836
20185168
20195366
20202129
20211419
20222748
20231130
202415113
202520113

Other regions of Hungary

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.

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