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Wildfires in Iran
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Regions
- Alborz2 fires
- Ardabil1 fire
- Bushehr15 fires
- Chaharmahal and Bakhtiarino fires now
- East Azerbaijan6 fires
- Fars20 fires
- Gilan2 fires
- Golestan1 fire
- Hamadan3 fires
- Hormozgan8 fires
- Ilam15 fires
- Isfahan16 fires
- Kerman22 fires
- Kermanshah13 fires
- Khuzestan56 fires
- Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad6 fires
- Kurdistanno fires now
- Lorestan9 fires
- Markazi4 fires
- Mazandaran2 fires
- North Khorasanno fires now
- Qazvin3 fires
- Qom3 fires
- Razavi Khorasan5 fires
- Semnan4 fires
- Sistan and Baluchestan5 fires
- South Khorasan4 fires
- Tehran9 fires
- West Azerbaijan2 fires
- Yazd7 fires
- Zanjan3 fires
72 fires
Nothing matches.
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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 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 96,670 km² of Iran at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 13,130 km², ranking 62nd 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 2024, with 21,330 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 7,960 km². The 2021–2025 average is 29% higher 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.
May, June and July together hold 30% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 May 2023, with detections in 685 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 96,670 km² with at least one detection, 19% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 62,360 | 65% |
| 2 years | 16,420 | 17% |
| 3 to 5 years | 13,150 | 14% |
| 6 to 10 years | 3,610 | 3.7% |
| 11 years or more | 1,140 | 1.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 30.25, 50.75 and holds 6.4% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7,960 | 64,904 |
| 2013 | 11,820 | 73,742 |
| 2014 | 11,380 | 74,233 |
| 2015 | 9,890 | 70,505 |
| 2016 | 15,210 | 93,654 |
| 2017 | 12,640 | 98,443 |
| 2018 | 10,840 | 94,346 |
| 2019 | 15,690 | 86,226 |
| 2020 | 15,520 | 84,704 |
| 2021 | 11,160 | 101,500 |
| 2022 | 7,960 | 98,961 |
| 2023 | 15,870 | 116,481 |
| 2024 | 21,330 | 121,381 |
| 2025 | 16,490 | 121,867 |
Nearby countries
- India324,930 km² in an average year
- Myanmar189,670 km² in an average year
- China182,410 km² in an average year
- Indonesia104,670 km² in an average year
- Thailand104,620 km² in an average year
- Lao PDR73,670 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
- Kuwait334 km
- Iraq339 km
- Saudi Arabia347 km
- Bahrain444 km
- Qatar509 km
- United Arab Emirates695 km
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
