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Wildfires in Israel
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 4,060 km² of Israel at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 521 km², ranking 137th 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 2013, with 790 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 334 km². The 2021–2025 average is 5.6% 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.
May, June and July together hold 35% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 28 April 2013, with detections in 157 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,060 km² with at least one detection, 18% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,460 | 60% |
| 2 years | 871 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 606 | 15% |
| 6 to 10 years | 114 | 2.8% |
| 11 years or more | 15 | 0.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 31.75, 34.75 and holds 38% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 464 | 1,050 |
| 2013 | 790 | 1,569 |
| 2014 | 438 | 1,204 |
| 2015 | 517 | 1,117 |
| 2016 | 573 | 1,288 |
| 2017 | 475 | 1,207 |
| 2018 | 422 | 1,077 |
| 2019 | 551 | 1,197 |
| 2020 | 437 | 725 |
| 2021 | 618 | 1,048 |
| 2022 | 334 | 806 |
| 2023 | 470 | 977 |
| 2024 | 688 | 1,289 |
| 2025 | 516 | 1,020 |
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
- Palestine72 km
- Jordan151 km
- Lebanon293 km
- Cyprus361 km
- Northern Cyprus400 km
- Cyprus U.N. Buffer Zone413 km
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
