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Wildfires in North Macedonia

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 UTC

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Wildfires in North Macedonia

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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 7,260 km² of North Macedonia at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 808 km², ranking 123rd of 200 countries.

808 km²detected in an average year
2024busiest year, 1,500 km²
2022quietest year, 360 km²
Augustpeak month, 22% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 1,230 km2'122013: 596 km2'132014: 395 km2'142015: 627 km2'152016: 592 km2'162017: 1,210 km2'172018: 608 km2'182019: 1,450 km2'192020: 422 km2'202021: 720 km2'212022: 360 km2'222023: 737 km2'232024: 1,500 km2'242025: 858 km2'251,500 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2024, with 1,500 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 360 km². The 2021–2025 average is 21% higher than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 2.1%JFebruary: 6.1%FMarch: 11%MApril: 6.2%AMay: 4.3%MJune: 5.1%JJuly: 13%JAugust: 22%ASeptember: 13%SOctober: 10%ONovember: 4.7%NDecember: 3.0%D22%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

July, August and September together hold 48% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 30 July 2024, with detections in 160 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 7,260 km² with at least one detection, 13% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year4,94068%
2 years1,40019%
3 to 5 years83612%
6 to 10 years761.0%
11 years or more120.2%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 41.25, 21.75 and holds 40% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20121,2302,593
20135961,733
20143951,284
20156271,602
20165921,459
20171,2102,357
20186081,615
20191,4502,777
20204221,395
20217201,689
2022360901
20237371,274
20241,5002,367
20258581,317

Nearby countries

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

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What is actually burning
What is actually burningThe ESA WorldCover class under every detection, read at 10 m. Forest, cropland, shrub or built-up, named rather than guessed.
Has this ground burned before
Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.
Alerts that stay quiet
Alerts that stay quietA fire must miss two passes before we say it stopped and grow by more than half again before we say it spread. Nothing is said twice.