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Wildfires in Kursk
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 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 13,250 km² of Kursk at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,520 km², ranking 31st 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 2014, with 3,710 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 266 km². The 2021–2025 average is 51% 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 58% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 3 April 2017, with detections in 291 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 13,250 km² with at least one detection, 14% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 8,100 | 61% |
| 2 years | 3,280 | 25% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,800 | 14% |
| 6 to 10 years | 71 | 0.5% |
| 11 years or more | 0.8 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 51.25, 35.25 and holds 9.4% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,160 | 1,584 |
| 2013 | 1,460 | 2,040 |
| 2014 | 3,710 | 5,442 |
| 2015 | 2,230 | 3,152 |
| 2016 | 923 | 1,272 |
| 2017 | 1,760 | 2,474 |
| 2018 | 1,380 | 1,999 |
| 2019 | 1,760 | 2,473 |
| 2020 | 2,190 | 3,147 |
| 2021 | 904 | 1,279 |
| 2022 | 266 | 376 |
| 2023 | 358 | 489 |
| 2024 | 2,130 | 4,042 |
| 2025 | 990 | 1,731 |
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
- Sumy, Ukraine69 km
- Oryol170 km
- Belgorod173 km
- Poltava, Ukraine179 km
- Bryansk232 km
- Kharkiv, Ukraine243 km