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Wildfires in Balochistan
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 10:26 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 11,420 km² of Balochistan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,390 km², ranking 4th of 8 regions of Pakistan.
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 2025, with 3,040 km² detected; the quietest was 2015, with 694 km². The 2021–2025 average is 82% higher 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.
April, May and June together hold 45% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 February 2024, with detections in 67 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 11,420 km² with at least one detection, 17% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 7,310 | 64% |
| 2 years | 2,120 | 19% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,780 | 16% |
| 6 to 10 years | 197 | 1.7% |
| 11 years or more | 12 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 28.25, 67.75 and holds 18% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,200 | 1,379 |
| 2013 | 914 | 1,094 |
| 2014 | 1,280 | 1,458 |
| 2015 | 694 | 907 |
| 2016 | 1,270 | 1,454 |
| 2017 | 1,250 | 1,520 |
| 2018 | 1,040 | 1,355 |
| 2019 | 853 | 1,240 |
| 2020 | 1,210 | 1,630 |
| 2021 | 1,730 | 2,008 |
| 2022 | 998 | 1,180 |
| 2023 | 1,460 | 1,631 |
| 2024 | 2,520 | 2,798 |
| 2025 | 3,040 | 3,317 |
Other regions of Pakistan
- Punjab25,990 km² in an average year
- Sindh6,240 km² in an average year
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa2,250 km² in an average year
- Federally Administered Tribal Areas858 km² in an average year
- Azad Kashmir508 km² in an average year
- Gilgit-Baltistan56 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
- Sindh348 km
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa484 km
- Federally Administered Tribal Areas656 km
- Punjab727 km
- Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran746 km
- Haryana, India795 km