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Wildfires in Gilgit-Baltistan
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 579 km² of Gilgit-Baltistan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 56 km², ranking 7th 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 2020, with 90 km² detected; the quietest was 2015, with 14 km². The 2021–2025 average is 15% 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.
September, October and November together hold 52% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 10 June 2021, with detections in 10 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 579 km² with at least one detection, 8.0% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 455 | 79% |
| 2 years | 78 | 13% |
| 3 to 5 years | 45 | 7.8% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1.0 | 0.2% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 35.75, 73.75 and holds 35% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 29 | 45 |
| 2013 | 86 | 124 |
| 2014 | 50 | 57 |
| 2015 | 14 | 15 |
| 2016 | 58 | 72 |
| 2017 | 70 | 107 |
| 2018 | 64 | 102 |
| 2019 | 44 | 67 |
| 2020 | 90 | 139 |
| 2021 | 86 | 134 |
| 2022 | 34 | 48 |
| 2023 | 44 | 61 |
| 2024 | 40 | 52 |
| 2025 | 68 | 112 |
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
- Balochistan1,390 km² in an average year
- Federally Administered Tribal Areas858 km² in an average year
- Azad Kashmir508 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
- Kunar, Afghanistan233 km
- Azad Kashmir277 km
- Jammu and Kashmir, India346 km
- Punjab389 km
- Federally Administered Tribal Areas389 km
- Khatlon, Tajikistan486 km