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Wildfires in North
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 07:28 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 3,040 km² of North at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 445 km², ranking 1st of 3 regions of New Caledonia.
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 910 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 106 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 46% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 December 2019, with detections in 58 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,040 km² with at least one detection, 27% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,530 | 50% |
| 2 years | 710 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 701 | 23% |
| 6 to 10 years | 103 | 3.4% |
| 11 years or more | 4.6 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -21.25, 164.75 and holds 37% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 133 | 120 |
| 2013 | 478 | 518 |
| 2014 | 552 | 781 |
| 2015 | 349 | 550 |
| 2016 | 494 | 751 |
| 2017 | 859 | 1,276 |
| 2018 | 242 | 581 |
| 2019 | 910 | 1,500 |
| 2020 | 221 | 470 |
| 2021 | 519 | 859 |
| 2022 | 106 | 396 |
| 2023 | 630 | 1,064 |
| 2024 | 578 | 665 |
| 2025 | 154 | 145 |
Other regions of New Caledonia
- South122 km² in an average year
- Loyalty Islands17 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
- South190 km
- Tafea, Vanuatu497 km
- Malampa, Vanuatu666 km
- Western, Fiji1,416 km