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Wildfires in Kamchatka Krai
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 12:28 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 13,040 km² of Kamchatka Krai at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 983 km², ranking 43rd of 85 regions of Russian Federation.
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 6,510 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 58 km². The 2021–2025 average is 67% 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.
June, July and August together hold 84% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 12 August 2016, with detections in 1,003 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 13,040 km² with at least one detection, 0.9% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 12,690 | 97% |
| 2 years | 229 | 1.8% |
| 3 to 5 years | 84 | 0.6% |
| 6 to 10 years | 24 | 0.2% |
| 11 years or more | 9.2 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 56.75, 161.25 and holds 12% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 321 | 1,731 |
| 2013 | 278 | 3,267 |
| 2014 | 92 | 477 |
| 2015 | 140 | 697 |
| 2016 | 6,510 | 22,858 |
| 2017 | 133 | 725 |
| 2018 | 105 | 351 |
| 2019 | 1,510 | 5,365 |
| 2020 | 2,230 | 7,237 |
| 2021 | 1,740 | 6,429 |
| 2022 | 165 | 1,152 |
| 2023 | 299 | 1,270 |
| 2024 | 58 | 244 |
| 2025 | 190 | 1,059 |
Other regions of Russian Federation
- Sakha Republic30,750 km² in an average year
- Krasnoyarsk Krai15,900 km² in an average year
- Zabaykalsky Krai15,080 km² in an average year
- Amur14,950 km² in an average year
- Irkutsk9,420 km² in an average year
- Khabarovsk Krai8,150 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
- Magadan818 km
- Chukotka Autonomous Okrug1,279 km