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Wildfires in Southern
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 1,220 km² of Southern at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 168 km², ranking 2nd 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 2013, with 227 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 126 km². The 2021–2025 average is 5.2% 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 28 April 2013, with detections in 48 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,220 km² with at least one detection, 21% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 700 | 57% |
| 2 years | 272 | 22% |
| 3 to 5 years | 196 | 16% |
| 6 to 10 years | 52 | 4.2% |
| 11 years or more | 5.3 | 0.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 31.75, 34.75 and holds 47% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 141 | 191 |
| 2013 | 227 | 332 |
| 2014 | 166 | 256 |
| 2015 | 154 | 223 |
| 2016 | 174 | 228 |
| 2017 | 150 | 233 |
| 2018 | 206 | 304 |
| 2019 | 159 | 220 |
| 2020 | 163 | 203 |
| 2021 | 182 | 210 |
| 2022 | 126 | 151 |
| 2023 | 179 | 239 |
| 2024 | 143 | 226 |
| 2025 | 188 | 251 |
Other regions of Israel
- Northern199 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
- Central0 km
- Jerusalem0 km
- West Bank, Palestine72 km
- Northern120 km
- Haifa120 km
- North Sinai, Egypt146 km