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Wildfires in Galați
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 1,170 km² of Galați at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 123 km², ranking 22nd of 42 regions of Romania.
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 2016, with 234 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 30 km². The 2021–2025 average is 59% 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 43% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 17 October 2018, with detections in 22 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,170 km² with at least one detection, 8.5% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 849 | 72% |
| 2 years | 226 | 19% |
| 3 to 5 years | 87 | 7.4% |
| 6 to 10 years | 5.2 | 0.4% |
| 11 years or more | 6.9 | 0.6% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 45.25, 27.75 and holds 69% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 122 | 500 |
| 2013 | 118 | 383 |
| 2014 | 214 | 500 |
| 2015 | 127 | 514 |
| 2016 | 234 | 672 |
| 2017 | 112 | 536 |
| 2018 | 182 | 622 |
| 2019 | 214 | 621 |
| 2020 | 63 | 414 |
| 2021 | 141 | 486 |
| 2022 | 90 | 326 |
| 2023 | 40 | 180 |
| 2024 | 30 | 77 |
| 2025 | 33 | 60 |
Other regions of Romania
- Dolj656 km² in an average year
- Teleorman633 km² in an average year
- Mehedinți509 km² in an average year
- Tulcea435 km² in an average year
- Timiș378 km² in an average year
- Olt374 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.