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Wildfires in Košice
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 371 km² of Košice at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 43 km², ranking 1st of 8 regions of Slovakia.
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 92 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 19 km². The 2021–2025 average is 51% 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.
June, July and August together hold 39% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 19 August 2014, with detections in 16 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 371 km² with at least one detection, 7.5% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 308 | 83% |
| 2 years | 35 | 9.5% |
| 3 to 5 years | 14 | 3.7% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1.6 | 0.4% |
| 11 years or more | 12 | 3.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 48.75, 21.25 and holds 91% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 92 | 1,275 |
| 2013 | 43 | 1,111 |
| 2014 | 69 | 1,183 |
| 2015 | 61 | 1,151 |
| 2016 | 49 | 1,131 |
| 2017 | 39 | 1,160 |
| 2018 | 22 | 1,169 |
| 2019 | 37 | 1,004 |
| 2020 | 43 | 897 |
| 2021 | 28 | 1,224 |
| 2022 | 47 | 971 |
| 2023 | 19 | 928 |
| 2024 | 24 | 937 |
| 2025 | 36 | 877 |
Other regions of Slovakia
- Banská Bystrica27 km² in an average year
- Prešov19 km² in an average year
- Nitra18 km² in an average year
- Žilina15 km² in an average year
- Bratislava15 km² in an average year
- Trnava15 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
- Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Hungary66 km
- Banská Bystrica73 km
- Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hungary92 km
- Zakarpattia, Ukraine123 km
- Žilina156 km
- Satu Mare, Romania157 km