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Wildfires in Milne Bay
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 10:27 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 4,650 km² of Milne Bay at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,160 km², ranking 8th of 20 regions of Papua New Guinea.
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 2015, with 2,090 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 769 km². The 2021–2025 average is 24% lower 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.
July, August and September together hold 67% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 5 September 2019, with detections in 87 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,650 km² with at least one detection, 50% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,550 | 33% |
| 2 years | 775 | 17% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,310 | 28% |
| 6 to 10 years | 915 | 20% |
| 11 years or more | 111 | 2.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -9.75, 149.75 and holds 44% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 993 | 998 |
| 2013 | 1,410 | 1,571 |
| 2014 | 1,230 | 1,304 |
| 2015 | 2,090 | 2,484 |
| 2016 | 927 | 919 |
| 2017 | 951 | 1,000 |
| 2018 | 1,440 | 1,591 |
| 2019 | 1,410 | 1,474 |
| 2020 | 769 | 759 |
| 2021 | 835 | 871 |
| 2022 | 972 | 994 |
| 2023 | 1,500 | 1,663 |
| 2024 | 873 | 893 |
| 2025 | 847 | 897 |
Other regions of Papua New Guinea
- Western4,740 km² in an average year
- East Sepik2,660 km² in an average year
- Morobe2,640 km² in an average year
- Central2,380 km² in an average year
- Madang2,180 km² in an average year
- Eastern Highlands1,570 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
- Oro109 km
- Central219 km
- Port Moresby279 km
- Gulf419 km
- West New Britain474 km
- Morobe547 km