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Wildfires in Austurland
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 88 km² of Austurland at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 7.9 km², ranking 3rd of 9 regions of Iceland.
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 82 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 0.0 km². The 2021–2025 average is 97% 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.
December, January and February together hold 51% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 6 October 2014, with detections in 77 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 88 km² with at least one detection, 0.0% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 65 | 74% |
| 2 years | 23 | 26% |
| 3 to 5 years | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 6 to 10 years | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 64.75, -16.75 and holds 99% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 82 | 1,124 |
| 2015 | 24 | 805 |
| 2016 | 1.0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0.5 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0.5 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0.5 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0.5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2.6 | 5 |
Other regions of Iceland
- Northeastern38 km² in an average year
- Southern Peninsula34 km² in an average year
- Western2.7 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
- Northeastern0 km
- Southern Peninsula287 km
- Highland, United Kingdom1,085 km
- Falkirk, United Kingdom1,178 km
- Redcar and Cleveland, United Kingdom1,402 km
- Limerick, Ireland1,409 km