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Wildfires in North Holland
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 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 185 km² of North Holland at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 33 km², ranking 2nd of 15 regions of Netherlands.
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 2020, with 45 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 23 km². The 2021–2025 average is 8.7% 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.
June, July and August together hold 32% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 18 August 2016, with detections in 21 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 185 km² with at least one detection, 22% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 112 | 61% |
| 2 years | 32 | 17% |
| 3 to 5 years | 18 | 10% |
| 6 to 10 years | 14 | 7.4% |
| 11 years or more | 9.1 | 4.9% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 52.25, 4.75 and holds 99% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 23 | 939 |
| 2013 | 32 | 1,011 |
| 2014 | 32 | 1,202 |
| 2015 | 36 | 1,188 |
| 2016 | 42 | 1,184 |
| 2017 | 26 | 1,083 |
| 2018 | 35 | 1,224 |
| 2019 | 43 | 1,160 |
| 2020 | 45 | 1,080 |
| 2021 | 29 | 1,017 |
| 2022 | 23 | 1,169 |
| 2023 | 37 | 860 |
| 2024 | 23 | 896 |
| 2025 | 38 | 1,209 |
Other regions of Netherlands
- South Holland65 km² in an average year
- North Brabant30 km² in an average year
- Limburg29 km² in an average year
- Gelderland26 km² in an average year
- Zeeland17 km² in an average year
- Overijssel16 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
- South Holland65 km
- Antwerp, Belgium116 km
- East Flanders, Belgium130 km
- Zeeland130 km
- North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany176 km
- Liège, Belgium180 km