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Wildfires in Palestine
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 2,090 km² of Palestine at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 273 km², ranking 145th of 200 countries.
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 2021, with 438 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 143 km². The 2021–2025 average is 47% 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.
May, June and July together hold 44% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 28 April 2013, with detections in 21 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,090 km² with at least one detection, 19% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,220 | 58% |
| 2 years | 473 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 333 | 16% |
| 6 to 10 years | 65 | 3.1% |
| 11 years or more | 3.1 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 32.25, 35.25 and holds 44% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 143 | 208 |
| 2013 | 248 | 305 |
| 2014 | 169 | 243 |
| 2015 | 221 | 267 |
| 2016 | 334 | 425 |
| 2017 | 170 | 210 |
| 2018 | 168 | 201 |
| 2019 | 373 | 480 |
| 2020 | 363 | 397 |
| 2021 | 438 | 532 |
| 2022 | 266 | 329 |
| 2023 | 314 | 410 |
| 2024 | 333 | 424 |
| 2025 | 282 | 333 |
Nearby countries
- India324,930 km² in an average year
- Myanmar189,670 km² in an average year
- China182,410 km² in an average year
- Indonesia104,670 km² in an average year
- Thailand104,620 km² in an average year
- Lao PDR73,670 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 countries
- Israel72 km
- Jordan94 km
- Lebanon227 km
- Cyprus334 km
- Northern Cyprus361 km
- Cyprus U.N. Buffer Zone381 km
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
