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Wildfires in Cahul
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 718 km² of Cahul at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 79 km², ranking 4th of 40 regions of Moldova.
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 2014, with 153 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 10 km². The 2021–2025 average is 55% 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.
July, August and September together hold 46% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 10 March 2019, with detections in 15 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 718 km² with at least one detection, 12% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 456 | 64% |
| 2 years | 174 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 86 | 12% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1.7 | 0.2% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 45.75, 28.25 and holds 82% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 77 | 94 |
| 2013 | 66 | 85 |
| 2014 | 153 | 185 |
| 2015 | 121 | 151 |
| 2016 | 125 | 162 |
| 2017 | 94 | 119 |
| 2018 | 74 | 93 |
| 2019 | 99 | 130 |
| 2020 | 52 | 69 |
| 2021 | 59 | 68 |
| 2022 | 118 | 158 |
| 2023 | 35 | 41 |
| 2024 | 10 | 12 |
| 2025 | 22 | 29 |
Other regions of Moldova
- Comrat90 km² in an average year
- Ștefan Vodă81 km² in an average year
- Bender80 km² in an average year
- Grigoriopol56 km² in an average year
- Căușeni53 km² in an average year
- Rezina52 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
- Comrat67 km
- Brăila, Romania67 km
- Galați, Romania67 km
- Vrancea, Romania77 km
- Odessa, Ukraine77 km
- Bacău, Romania95 km