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Wildfires in Selenge
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 3,670 km² of Selenge at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 279 km², ranking 4th of 22 regions of Mongolia.
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 2012, with 915 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 19 km². The 2021–2025 average is 50% 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 84% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 15 July 2017, with detections in 310 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,670 km² with at least one detection, 0.2% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 3,470 | 94% |
| 2 years | 198 | 5.4% |
| 3 to 5 years | 5.6 | 0.2% |
| 6 to 10 years | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 1.6 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 49.25, 107.25 and holds 13% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 915 | 1,865 |
| 2013 | 55 | 119 |
| 2014 | 50 | 66 |
| 2015 | 739 | 1,687 |
| 2016 | 29 | 50 |
| 2017 | 858 | 2,199 |
| 2018 | 248 | 583 |
| 2019 | 59 | 115 |
| 2020 | 50 | 104 |
| 2021 | 24 | 59 |
| 2022 | 35 | 66 |
| 2023 | 19 | 37 |
| 2024 | 41 | 64 |
| 2025 | 781 | 1,613 |
Other regions of Mongolia
- Dornod1,840 km² in an average year
- Sükhbaatar458 km² in an average year
- Khövsgöl330 km² in an average year
- Khentii247 km² in an average year
- Bulgan77 km² in an average year
- Töv66 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
- Töv66 km
- Bulgan242 km
- Khentii332 km
- Zabaykalsky Krai, Russian Federation422 km
- Khövsgöl426 km
- Republic of Buryatia, Russian Federation477 km