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Wildfires in Pest
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 375 km² of Pest at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 33 km², ranking 7th of 43 regions of Hungary.
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 2012, with 96 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 15 km². The 2021–2025 average is 45% lower 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.
March, April and May together hold 40% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 28 February 2019, with detections in 10 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 375 km² with at least one detection, 4.0% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 327 | 87% |
| 2 years | 33 | 8.7% |
| 3 to 5 years | 12 | 3.1% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2.4 | 0.6% |
| 11 years or more | 0.8 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 47.25, 19.25 and holds 29% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 96 | 122 |
| 2013 | 39 | 53 |
| 2014 | 42 | 58 |
| 2015 | 26 | 38 |
| 2016 | 18 | 30 |
| 2017 | 34 | 51 |
| 2018 | 20 | 31 |
| 2019 | 50 | 66 |
| 2020 | 19 | 23 |
| 2021 | 17 | 20 |
| 2022 | 40 | 51 |
| 2023 | 19 | 29 |
| 2024 | 15 | 22 |
| 2025 | 30 | 45 |
Other regions of Hungary
- Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén174 km² in an average year
- Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg85 km² in an average year
- Hajdú-Bihar45 km² in an average year
- Bács-Kiskun39 km² in an average year
- Békés36 km² in an average year
- Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok35 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.