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Wildfires in New Caledonia
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 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 4,200 km² of New Caledonia at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 584 km², ranking 134th of 200 countries.
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 2019, with 1,170 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 128 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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.
September, October and November together hold 43% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 December 2019, with detections in 94 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,200 km² with at least one detection, 24% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,290 | 54% |
| 2 years | 910 | 22% |
| 3 to 5 years | 870 | 21% |
| 6 to 10 years | 126 | 3.0% |
| 11 years or more | 5.7 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -21.25, 164.75 and holds 26% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 188 | 398 |
| 2013 | 577 | 829 |
| 2014 | 742 | 1,154 |
| 2015 | 509 | 903 |
| 2016 | 660 | 1,125 |
| 2017 | 1,130 | 1,731 |
| 2018 | 320 | 798 |
| 2019 | 1,170 | 1,952 |
| 2020 | 318 | 709 |
| 2021 | 654 | 1,098 |
| 2022 | 128 | 503 |
| 2023 | 784 | 1,314 |
| 2024 | 760 | 890 |
| 2025 | 235 | 291 |
Nearby countries
- Australia465,550 km² in an average year
- Papua New Guinea22,120 km² in an average year
- New Zealand1,880 km² in an average year
- Fiji1,730 km² in an average year
- Solomon Islands167 km² in an average year
- Vanuatu132 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 countries
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
