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Wildfires in Ha'il
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 954 km² of Ha'il at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 98 km², ranking 8th of 13 regions of Saudi Arabia.
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 2025, with 124 km² detected; the quietest was 2019, with 59 km². The 2021–2025 average is 13% higher 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.
May, June and July together hold 28% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 March 2016, with detections in 12 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 954 km² with at least one detection, 8.2% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 776 | 81% |
| 2 years | 99 | 10% |
| 3 to 5 years | 55 | 5.8% |
| 6 to 10 years | 19 | 2.0% |
| 11 years or more | 4.4 | 0.5% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 28.25, 43.25 and holds 51% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 84 | 110 |
| 2013 | 102 | 254 |
| 2014 | 106 | 280 |
| 2015 | 94 | 256 |
| 2016 | 120 | 300 |
| 2017 | 67 | 242 |
| 2018 | 82 | 268 |
| 2019 | 59 | 196 |
| 2020 | 85 | 310 |
| 2021 | 97 | 267 |
| 2022 | 118 | 287 |
| 2023 | 111 | 270 |
| 2024 | 120 | 251 |
| 2025 | 124 | 266 |
Other regions of Saudi Arabia
- Eastern1,350 km² in an average year
- Riyadh529 km² in an average year
- Makkah368 km² in an average year
- Al-Jowf200 km² in an average year
- Al-Qassim173 km² in an average year
- Al Madinah142 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
- Al-Qassim227 km
- Al Muthanna, Iraq385 km
- An-Najaf, Iraq400 km
- Al-Qādisiyyah, Iraq415 km
- Al Ahmadi, Kuwait443 km
- Al Anbar, Iraq444 km