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Wildfires in Šumadija

District of Serbia

Wildfires in Šumadija

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 10:27 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 454 km² of Šumadija at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 44 km², ranking 20th of 25 regions of Serbia.

44 km²detected in an average year
2019busiest year, 118 km²
2025quietest year, 20 km²
Octoberpeak month, 32% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 46 km2'122013: 35 km2'132014: 28 km2'142015: 32 km2'152016: 29 km2'162017: 74 km2'172018: 69 km2'182019: 118 km2'192020: 41 km2'202021: 32 km2'212022: 31 km2'222023: 28 km2'232024: 38 km2'242025: 20 km2'25118 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 118 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 20 km². The 2021–2025 average is 12% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 0.0%JFebruary: 6.7%FMarch: 14%MApril: 5.5%AMay: 3.0%MJune: 4.4%JJuly: 7.0%JAugust: 11%ASeptember: 10%SOctober: 32%ONovember: 6.1%NDecember: 0.4%D32%

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 24 October 2019, with detections in 10 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 454 km² with at least one detection, 6.7% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year34476%
2 years7917%
3 to 5 years275.9%
6 to 10 years1.80.4%
11 years or more1.80.4%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 44.25, 20.75 and holds 56% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20124666
20133544
20142838
20153252
20162945
20177494
20186988
2019118154
20204153
20213241
20223143
20232836
20243852
20252026

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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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