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Wildfires in Solothurn

Canton of Switzerland

Wildfires in Solothurn

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 18 km² of Solothurn at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 3.2 km², ranking 8th of 26 regions of Switzerland.

3.2 km²detected in an average year
2017busiest year, 5.1 km²
2015quietest year, 1.7 km²
Septemberpeak month, 13% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 5.0 km2'122013: 5.0 km2'132014: 2.5 km2'142015: 1.7 km2'152016: 2.5 km2'162017: 5.1 km2'172018: 5.0 km2'182019: 2.5 km2'192020: 3.4 km2'202021: 1.7 km2'212022: 1.7 km2'222023: 2.5 km2'232024: 2.5 km2'242025: 3.4 km2'255.1 km2

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

The busiest year was 2017, with 5.1 km² detected; the quietest was 2015, with 1.7 km². The 2021–2025 average is 29% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 3.7%JFebruary: 5.7%FMarch: 10%MApril: 9.3%AMay: 10%MJune: 13%JJuly: 7.7%JAugust: 13%ASeptember: 13%SOctober: 8.9%ONovember: 4.0%NDecember: 1.6%D13%

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 35% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 August 2017, with detections in 4 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 18 km² with at least one detection, 14% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year1267%
2 years3.419%
3 to 5 years0.84.5%
6 to 10 years0.00.0%
11 years or more1.710%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 47.25, 7.75 and holds 100% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20125.0136
20135.096
20142.5151
20151.7148
20162.5137
20175.1155
20185.0154
20192.5160
20203.4179
20211.7147
20221.7155
20232.5119
20242.5102
20253.4121

Other regions of Switzerland

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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