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Wildfires in Karelia
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 11:24 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 1,330 km² of Karelia at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 100 km², ranking 77th 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 2013, with 350 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 19 km². The 2021–2025 average is 30% 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 73% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 18 July 2021, with detections in 208 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,330 km² with at least one detection, 0.8% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,280 | 96% |
| 2 years | 44 | 3.3% |
| 3 to 5 years | 11 | 0.8% |
| 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 62.25, 33.25 and holds 11% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 49 | 92 |
| 2013 | 350 | 826 |
| 2014 | 206 | 411 |
| 2015 | 38 | 74 |
| 2016 | 81 | 151 |
| 2017 | 20 | 35 |
| 2018 | 96 | 240 |
| 2019 | 24 | 49 |
| 2020 | 30 | 58 |
| 2021 | 338 | 1,148 |
| 2022 | 19 | 40 |
| 2023 | 21 | 40 |
| 2024 | 27 | 73 |
| 2025 | 101 | 287 |
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
- Saint Petersburg321 km
- Vologda413 km
- Leningrad429 km
- Novgorod458 km
- Lääne-Viru, Estonia485 km
- Arkhangelsk486 km