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Wildfires in Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 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 3,190 km² of Republic of North Ossetia-Alania at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 577 km², ranking 59th 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 2012, with 1,180 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 230 km². The 2021–2025 average is 61% 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.
September, October and November together hold 44% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 30 March 2012, with detections in 114 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,190 km² with at least one detection, 41% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,110 | 35% |
| 2 years | 788 | 25% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,100 | 34% |
| 6 to 10 years | 200 | 6.3% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 43.25, 44.25 and holds 44% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,180 | 1,710 |
| 2013 | 558 | 729 |
| 2014 | 784 | 1,044 |
| 2015 | 740 | 962 |
| 2016 | 629 | 819 |
| 2017 | 839 | 1,106 |
| 2018 | 663 | 859 |
| 2019 | 617 | 805 |
| 2020 | 558 | 705 |
| 2021 | 276 | 331 |
| 2022 | 319 | 405 |
| 2023 | 427 | 529 |
| 2024 | 230 | 276 |
| 2025 | 259 | 311 |
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
- Republic of Ingushetia40 km
- Kabardino-Balkaria68 km
- Chechen Republic121 km
- Imereti, Georgia137 km
- Stavropol Krai163 km
- Shida Kartli, Georgia166 km