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Wildfires in Balqa
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 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 225 km² of Balqa at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 23 km², ranking 5th of 12 regions of Jordan.
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 2025, with 34 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 12 km². The 2021–2025 average is 10% 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.
May, June and July together hold 43% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 3 June 2019, with detections in 6 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 225 km² with at least one detection, 8.9% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 164 | 73% |
| 2 years | 41 | 18% |
| 3 to 5 years | 18 | 8.0% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2.1 | 0.9% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 31.75, 35.75 and holds 55% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 14 | 64 |
| 2013 | 24 | 31 |
| 2014 | 14 | 15 |
| 2015 | 32 | 37 |
| 2016 | 29 | 40 |
| 2017 | 16 | 18 |
| 2018 | 12 | 13 |
| 2019 | 32 | 32 |
| 2020 | 30 | 30 |
| 2021 | 27 | 28 |
| 2022 | 19 | 22 |
| 2023 | 21 | 20 |
| 2024 | 23 | 24 |
| 2025 | 34 | 38 |
Other regions of Jordan
- Irbid38 km² in an average year
- Amman37 km² in an average year
- Zarqa27 km² in an average year
- Mafraq26 km² in an average year
- Aqaba23 km² in an average year
- Karak11 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.