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Wildfires in Moscow
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 9,500 km² of Moscow at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 951 km², ranking 45th 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 2,890 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 233 km². The 2021–2025 average is 70% 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.
April, May and June together hold 58% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 12 April 2015, with detections in 476 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 9,500 km² with at least one detection, 8.2% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 6,900 | 73% |
| 2 years | 1,810 | 19% |
| 3 to 5 years | 742 | 7.8% |
| 6 to 10 years | 36 | 0.4% |
| 11 years or more | 4.2 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 55.25, 38.75 and holds 15% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 606 | 1,361 |
| 2013 | 630 | 1,523 |
| 2014 | 2,890 | 5,556 |
| 2015 | 1,820 | 3,606 |
| 2016 | 1,010 | 1,980 |
| 2017 | 646 | 1,293 |
| 2018 | 1,420 | 2,819 |
| 2019 | 1,180 | 2,241 |
| 2020 | 986 | 1,941 |
| 2021 | 754 | 1,632 |
| 2022 | 235 | 693 |
| 2023 | 497 | 1,181 |
| 2024 | 233 | 792 |
| 2025 | 401 | 931 |
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.