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Wildfires in Norrbotten
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 312 km² of Norrbotten at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 24 km², ranking 2nd of 21 regions of Sweden.
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 2014, with 70 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 9.8 km². The 2021–2025 average is 59% 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.
May, June and July together hold 41% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 18 July 2018, with detections in 28 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 312 km² with at least one detection, 1.1% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 303 | 97% |
| 2 years | 5.8 | 1.9% |
| 3 to 5 years | 2.3 | 0.7% |
| 6 to 10 years | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 1.0 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 65.75, 22.25 and holds 80% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 28 | 237 |
| 2013 | 34 | 277 |
| 2014 | 70 | 387 |
| 2015 | 18 | 187 |
| 2016 | 14 | 263 |
| 2017 | 19 | 239 |
| 2018 | 46 | 352 |
| 2019 | 18 | 252 |
| 2020 | 24 | 282 |
| 2021 | 17 | 244 |
| 2022 | 9.8 | 202 |
| 2023 | 11 | 215 |
| 2024 | 17 | 231 |
| 2025 | 14 | 253 |
Other regions of Sweden
- Västra Götaland31 km² in an average year
- Gävleborg21 km² in an average year
- Dalarna20 km² in an average year
- Skåne16 km² in an average year
- Västmanland16 km² in an average year
- Västerbotten13 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
- Västerbotten120 km
- Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland145 km
- Nordland, Norway365 km
- Murmansk, Russian Federation591 km
- Finland Proper, Finland611 km
- Gävleborg619 km