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Wildfires in South Chungcheong
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 660 km² of South Chungcheong at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 77 km², ranking 7th of 17 regions of Republic of Korea.
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 2023, with 114 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 45 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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.
March, April and May together hold 31% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 April 2023, with detections in 41 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 660 km² with at least one detection, 7.4% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 544 | 82% |
| 2 years | 68 | 10% |
| 3 to 5 years | 21 | 3.2% |
| 6 to 10 years | 7.0 | 1.1% |
| 11 years or more | 21 | 3.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 36.75, 126.75 and holds 92% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 70 | 875 |
| 2013 | 51 | 1,056 |
| 2014 | 82 | 1,155 |
| 2015 | 92 | 1,217 |
| 2016 | 84 | 1,102 |
| 2017 | 92 | 1,265 |
| 2018 | 80 | 1,278 |
| 2019 | 81 | 1,275 |
| 2020 | 60 | 1,147 |
| 2021 | 86 | 1,232 |
| 2022 | 84 | 1,164 |
| 2023 | 114 | 1,217 |
| 2024 | 45 | 916 |
| 2025 | 66 | 948 |
Other regions of Republic of Korea
- North Gyeongsang162 km² in an average year
- South Jeolla115 km² in an average year
- Gyeonggi111 km² in an average year
- North Jeolla101 km² in an average year
- Gangwon92 km² in an average year
- South Gyeongsang85 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
- Incheon55 km
- Gyeonggi111 km
- North Jeolla111 km
- North Chungcheong144 km
- South Jeolla166 km
- South Hwanghae, Dem. Rep. Korea212 km