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Wildfires in Northern
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 1,670 km² of Northern at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 199 km², ranking 1st 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 2024, with 414 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 101 km². The 2021–2025 average is 24% 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.
June, July and August together hold 38% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 4 July 2024, with detections in 61 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,670 km² with at least one detection, 16% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,060 | 63% |
| 2 years | 351 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 232 | 14% |
| 6 to 10 years | 26 | 1.6% |
| 11 years or more | 4.1 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 32.75, 35.25 and holds 72% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 162 | 344 |
| 2013 | 255 | 478 |
| 2014 | 152 | 406 |
| 2015 | 200 | 362 |
| 2016 | 185 | 391 |
| 2017 | 146 | 404 |
| 2018 | 101 | 286 |
| 2019 | 226 | 440 |
| 2020 | 181 | 244 |
| 2021 | 279 | 457 |
| 2022 | 131 | 325 |
| 2023 | 170 | 381 |
| 2024 | 414 | 677 |
| 2025 | 186 | 372 |
Other regions of Israel
- Southern168 km² in an average year
- Central80 km² in an average year
- Haifa33 km² in an average year
- Jerusalem32 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
- Haifa0 km
- West Bank, Palestine55 km
- Nabatieh, Lebanon55 km
- South Lebanon, Lebanon55 km
- Daraa, Syria93 km
- Zarqa, Jordan109 km