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Wildfires in South Jeolla

Metropolitan City of Republic of Korea

Wildfires in South Jeolla

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 1,100 km² of South Jeolla at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 115 km², ranking 2nd of 17 regions of Republic of Korea.

115 km²detected in an average year
2019busiest year, 165 km²
2024quietest year, 63 km²
Junepeak month, 17% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 98 km2'122013: 96 km2'132014: 104 km2'142015: 121 km2'152016: 102 km2'162017: 165 km2'172018: 124 km2'182019: 165 km2'192020: 150 km2'202021: 118 km2'212022: 113 km2'222023: 124 km2'232024: 63 km2'242025: 69 km2'25165 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2019, with 165 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 63 km². The 2021–2025 average is 6.2% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 3.4%JFebruary: 5.6%FMarch: 14%MApril: 10%AMay: 13%MJune: 17%JJuly: 4.2%JAugust: 6.8%ASeptember: 6.9%SOctober: 11%ONovember: 5.2%NDecember: 2.4%D17%

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 40% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 4 June 2019, with detections in 20 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 1,100 km² with at least one detection, 8.7% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year85277%
2 years15614%
3 to 5 years777.0%
6 to 10 years121.1%
11 years or more7.00.6%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 35.25, 126.75 and holds 43% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
201298158
201396150
2014104154
2015121203
2016102174
2017165239
2018124248
2019165233
2020150200
2021118215
2022113208
2023124193
20246391
20256988

Other regions of Republic of Korea

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.

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