AURSEEAursee
Wildfires in Iceland
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
Follow Iceland: fire alerts by emailNo fires detected in Iceland in the last 24 hours.
Regions
- Austurlandno fires now
- Northeasternno fires now
- Southern Peninsulano fires now
- Westernno fires now
Fire alerts for Iceland
Free. One email when satellites detect fire anywhere in Iceland, then at most one update a day while fires continue.
Free. Pick a town and we email you when satellites detect fire within 30 km of it.
Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 875 km² of Iceland at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 88 km², ranking 167th of 200 countries.
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 2014, with 494 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 4.7 km². The 2021–2025 average is 19% 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.
September, October and November together hold 53% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 13 September 2014, with detections in 558 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 875 km² with at least one detection, 8.1% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 644 | 74% |
| 2 years | 160 | 18% |
| 3 to 5 years | 67 | 7.7% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2.0 | 0.2% |
| 11 years or more | 1.6 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 64.75, -16.75 and holds 66% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
Show the table
| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7.5 | 44 |
| 2013 | 9.2 | 50 |
| 2014 | 494 | 14,810 |
| 2015 | 129 | 2,924 |
| 2016 | 24 | 80 |
| 2017 | 6.3 | 53 |
| 2018 | 11 | 72 |
| 2019 | 6.3 | 105 |
| 2020 | 4.7 | 59 |
| 2021 | 97 | 3,107 |
| 2022 | 32 | 445 |
| 2023 | 91 | 645 |
| 2024 | 254 | 3,350 |
| 2025 | 60 | 425 |
Nearby countries
- Russian Federation212,570 km² in an average year
- Ukraine35,560 km² in an average year
- Italy9,880 km² in an average year
- Romania7,650 km² in an average year
- Spain5,090 km² in an average year
- France3,350 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 countries
- Ireland1,409 km
Embed this map on your site
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
