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Wildfires in Golestan
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 07:28 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 4,340 km² of Golestan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 539 km², ranking 5th of 31 regions of Iran.
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 2016, with 1,080 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 233 km². The 2021–2025 average is 32% 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.
June, July and August together hold 57% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 June 2024, with detections in 70 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,340 km² with at least one detection, 18% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,530 | 58% |
| 2 years | 1,030 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 724 | 17% |
| 6 to 10 years | 55 | 1.3% |
| 11 years or more | 3.0 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 36.75, 54.75 and holds 32% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 286 | 479 |
| 2013 | 719 | 979 |
| 2014 | 421 | 723 |
| 2015 | 538 | 792 |
| 2016 | 1,080 | 1,424 |
| 2017 | 762 | 1,070 |
| 2018 | 499 | 707 |
| 2019 | 765 | 988 |
| 2020 | 420 | 625 |
| 2021 | 233 | 430 |
| 2022 | 287 | 484 |
| 2023 | 245 | 499 |
| 2024 | 908 | 1,230 |
| 2025 | 386 | 643 |
Other regions of Iran
- Khuzestan3,680 km² in an average year
- Fars1,460 km² in an average year
- Kermanshah934 km² in an average year
- Lorestan580 km² in an average year
- Ilam451 km² in an average year
- Tehran438 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
- Semnan55 km
- Mazandaran133 km
- North Khorasan315 km
- Tehran332 km
- Alborz361 km
- Qazvin406 km