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Wildfires in Kosovo

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC

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Wildfires in Kosovo

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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 4,200 km² of Kosovo at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 517 km², ranking 138th of 200 countries.

517 km²detected in an average year
2012busiest year, 1,120 km²
2016quietest year, 234 km²
Augustpeak month, 30% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 1,120 km2'122013: 441 km2'132014: 409 km2'142015: 459 km2'152016: 234 km2'162017: 551 km2'172018: 324 km2'182019: 766 km2'192020: 463 km2'202021: 446 km2'212022: 299 km2'222023: 500 km2'232024: 568 km2'242025: 668 km2'251,120 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2012, with 1,120 km² detected; the quietest was 2016, with 234 km². The 2021–2025 average is 6.6% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 0.4%JFebruary: 3.3%FMarch: 13%MApril: 8.7%AMay: 1.5%MJune: 1.3%JJuly: 14%JAugust: 30%ASeptember: 16%SOctober: 9.3%ONovember: 2.6%NDecember: 0.8%D30%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

July, August and September together hold 59% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 3 September 2012, with detections in 95 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 4,200 km² with at least one detection, 17% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year2,51060%
2 years97923%
3 to 5 years63215%
6 to 10 years761.8%
11 years or more1.80.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 42.75, 21.25 and holds 26% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20121,1201,907
2013441662
2014409555
2015459650
2016234296
2017551772
2018324417
20197661,126
2020463627
2021446678
2022299363
2023500665
2024568739
2025668907

Nearby countries

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

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What is actually burning
What is actually burningThe ESA WorldCover class under every detection, read at 10 m. Forest, cropland, shrub or built-up, named rather than guessed.
Has this ground burned before
Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.
Alerts that stay quiet
Alerts that stay quietA fire must miss two passes before we say it stopped and grow by more than half again before we say it spread. Nothing is said twice.