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Wildfires in South Holland
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 10:27 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 344 km² of South Holland at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 65 km², ranking 1st 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 2016, with 94 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 44 km². The 2021–2025 average is 12% 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 45% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 5 September 2013, with detections in 35 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 344 km² with at least one detection, 37% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 164 | 48% |
| 2 years | 53 | 16% |
| 3 to 5 years | 88 | 26% |
| 6 to 10 years | 30 | 8.7% |
| 11 years or more | 8.4 | 2.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 51.75, 4.25 and holds 79% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 51 | 228 |
| 2013 | 80 | 268 |
| 2014 | 60 | 259 |
| 2015 | 57 | 269 |
| 2016 | 94 | 273 |
| 2017 | 56 | 236 |
| 2018 | 68 | 270 |
| 2019 | 69 | 328 |
| 2020 | 80 | 315 |
| 2021 | 69 | 262 |
| 2022 | 47 | 258 |
| 2023 | 58 | 267 |
| 2024 | 44 | 194 |
| 2025 | 82 | 298 |
Other regions of Netherlands
- North Holland33 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
- Antwerp, Belgium55 km
- North Holland65 km
- Zeeland65 km
- East Flanders, Belgium65 km
- Nord, France149 km
- Limburg152 km