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Wildfires in South
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 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 984 km² of South at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 122 km², ranking 2nd 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 243 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 20 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.
October, November and December together hold 37% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 December 2019, with detections in 33 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 984 km² with at least one detection, 18% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 636 | 65% |
| 2 years | 171 | 17% |
| 3 to 5 years | 153 | 16% |
| 6 to 10 years | 23 | 2.3% |
| 11 years or more | 1.1 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -22.25, 166.25 and holds 60% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 52 | 275 |
| 2013 | 75 | 288 |
| 2014 | 166 | 351 |
| 2015 | 128 | 325 |
| 2016 | 139 | 347 |
| 2017 | 236 | 422 |
| 2018 | 66 | 205 |
| 2019 | 243 | 437 |
| 2020 | 72 | 217 |
| 2021 | 113 | 219 |
| 2022 | 20 | 105 |
| 2023 | 148 | 244 |
| 2024 | 175 | 216 |
| 2025 | 77 | 142 |
Other regions of New Caledonia
- North445 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
- North190 km
- Tafea, Vanuatu417 km
- Malampa, Vanuatu699 km
- Western, Fiji1,301 km
- Northern, Fiji1,445 km