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Wildfires in Pčinja

District of Serbia

Wildfires in Pčinja

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 952 km² of Pčinja at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 120 km², ranking 8th of 25 regions of Serbia.

120 km²detected in an average year
2019busiest year, 280 km²
2016quietest year, 51 km²
Augustpeak month, 25% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 264 km2'122013: 58 km2'132014: 57 km2'142015: 70 km2'152016: 51 km2'162017: 129 km2'172018: 123 km2'182019: 280 km2'192020: 67 km2'202021: 94 km2'212022: 78 km2'222023: 90 km2'232024: 187 km2'242025: 135 km2'25280 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2019, with 280 km² detected; the quietest was 2016, with 51 km². The 2021–2025 average is 17% higher than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 0.3%JFebruary: 3.9%FMarch: 18%MApril: 13%AMay: 1.7%MJune: 0.5%JJuly: 6.1%JAugust: 25%ASeptember: 14%SOctober: 13%ONovember: 2.8%NDecember: 0.9%D25%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

August, September and October together hold 53% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 1 April 2019, with detections in 48 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 952 km² with at least one detection, 19% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year55458%
2 years21623%
3 to 5 years16517%
6 to 10 years171.8%
11 years or more0.00.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 42.25, 21.75 and holds 46% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012264483
20135879
20145765
20157082
20165160
2017129170
2018123155
2019280476
20206774
202194118
20227897
202390113
2024187283
2025135169

Other regions of Serbia

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.

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