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Wildfires in Jerusalem
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 277 km² of Jerusalem at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 32 km², ranking 5th of 6 regions of Israel.
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 63 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 9.5 km². The 2021–2025 average is 36% 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 34% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 27 April 2013, with detections in 12 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 277 km² with at least one detection, 14% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 183 | 66% |
| 2 years | 55 | 20% |
| 3 to 5 years | 33 | 12% |
| 6 to 10 years | 5.3 | 1.9% |
| 11 years or more | 1.1 | 0.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 31.75, 34.75 and holds 80% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 23 | 185 |
| 2013 | 60 | 232 |
| 2014 | 24 | 190 |
| 2015 | 37 | 189 |
| 2016 | 63 | 240 |
| 2017 | 30 | 180 |
| 2018 | 16 | 178 |
| 2019 | 53 | 201 |
| 2020 | 9.5 | 9 |
| 2021 | 54 | 65 |
| 2022 | 14 | 13 |
| 2023 | 14 | 16 |
| 2024 | 30 | 35 |
| 2025 | 22 | 26 |
Other regions of Israel
- Northern199 km² in an average year
- Southern168 km² in an average year
- Central80 km² in an average year
- Haifa33 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
- Southern0 km
- Central0 km
- West Bank, Palestine72 km
- Northern120 km
- Haifa120 km
- North Sinai, Egypt146 km