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Wildfires in Sakhalin
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 1,160 km² of Sakhalin at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 120 km², ranking 76th 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 398 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 46 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.
July, August and September together hold 36% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 1 July 2012, with detections in 125 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,160 km² with at least one detection, 6.5% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 984 | 85% |
| 2 years | 99 | 8.6% |
| 3 to 5 years | 43 | 3.7% |
| 6 to 10 years | 15 | 1.3% |
| 11 years or more | 17 | 1.5% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 53.25, 143.25 and holds 29% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 398 | 1,773 |
| 2013 | 119 | 740 |
| 2014 | 148 | 846 |
| 2015 | 96 | 787 |
| 2016 | 135 | 902 |
| 2017 | 156 | 1,118 |
| 2018 | 112 | 903 |
| 2019 | 88 | 939 |
| 2020 | 70 | 770 |
| 2021 | 60 | 658 |
| 2022 | 127 | 803 |
| 2023 | 68 | 1,401 |
| 2024 | 51 | 1,081 |
| 2025 | 46 | 1,296 |
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
- Khabarovsk Krai776 km
- Jewish951 km
- Magadan1,192 km
- Hokkaidō, Japan1,237 km
- Primorsky Krai1,305 km
- Aomori Prefecture, Japan1,394 km