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Wildfires in Harghita
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 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 524 km² of Harghita at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 45 km², ranking 39th 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 2012, with 148 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 0.9 km². The 2021–2025 average is 63% 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.
March, April and May together hold 67% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 4 April 2012, with detections in 40 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 524 km² with at least one detection, 2.9% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 433 | 83% |
| 2 years | 76 | 14% |
| 3 to 5 years | 15 | 2.9% |
| 6 to 10 years | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 46.25, 25.25 and holds 31% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 148 | 249 |
| 2013 | 32 | 38 |
| 2014 | 84 | 102 |
| 2015 | 52 | 63 |
| 2016 | 18 | 21 |
| 2017 | 57 | 69 |
| 2018 | 23 | 30 |
| 2019 | 34 | 41 |
| 2020 | 66 | 77 |
| 2021 | 26 | 31 |
| 2022 | 65 | 78 |
| 2023 | 0.9 | 1 |
| 2024 | 18 | 22 |
| 2025 | 12 | 14 |
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.