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Wildfires in Sibiu
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 1,500 km² of Sibiu at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 172 km², ranking 16th 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 542 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 35 km². The 2021–2025 average is 47% 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.
February, March and April together hold 85% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 21 March 2012, with detections in 87 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,500 km² with at least one detection, 14% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 924 | 62% |
| 2 years | 362 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 201 | 13% |
| 6 to 10 years | 12 | 0.8% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 45.75, 24.25 and holds 31% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 542 | 733 |
| 2013 | 107 | 129 |
| 2014 | 171 | 204 |
| 2015 | 178 | 220 |
| 2016 | 84 | 104 |
| 2017 | 288 | 365 |
| 2018 | 68 | 82 |
| 2019 | 193 | 241 |
| 2020 | 204 | 249 |
| 2021 | 90 | 106 |
| 2022 | 276 | 350 |
| 2023 | 35 | 44 |
| 2024 | 90 | 111 |
| 2025 | 88 | 106 |
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.