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Wildfires in Kerala
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 8,370 km² of Kerala at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,300 km², ranking 27th of 35 regions of India.
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 2,270 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 439 km². The 2021–2025 average is 41% 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.
January, February and March together hold 82% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 25 February 2012, with detections in 394 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 8,370 km² with at least one detection, 28% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 4,230 | 50% |
| 2 years | 1,780 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,880 | 22% |
| 6 to 10 years | 479 | 5.7% |
| 11 years or more | 9.8 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 9.75, 76.75 and holds 10% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2,270 | 2,479 |
| 2013 | 1,500 | 1,485 |
| 2014 | 1,310 | 1,331 |
| 2015 | 1,060 | 1,064 |
| 2016 | 1,920 | 2,063 |
| 2017 | 1,990 | 2,168 |
| 2018 | 890 | 915 |
| 2019 | 1,390 | 1,472 |
| 2020 | 1,070 | 1,092 |
| 2021 | 439 | 440 |
| 2022 | 642 | 644 |
| 2023 | 1,430 | 1,544 |
| 2024 | 1,250 | 1,280 |
| 2025 | 966 | 949 |
Other regions of India
- Madhya Pradesh38,920 km² in an average year
- Maharashtra31,990 km² in an average year
- Punjab30,530 km² in an average year
- Chhattisgarh28,500 km² in an average year
- Odisha27,930 km² in an average year
- Telangana19,840 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
- Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka387 km
- Puttalama, Sri Lanka397 km
- Vavuniya, Sri Lanka399 km
- Mannar, Sri Lanka399 km
- Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka442 km
- Kurunegala, Sri Lanka444 km