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Wildfires in Tainan City
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 10:26 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 597 km² of Tainan City at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 68 km², ranking 2nd of 21 regions of Taiwan.
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 2015, with 128 km² detected; the quietest was 2016, with 31 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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.
January, February and March together hold 42% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 11 April 2023, with detections in 8 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 597 km² with at least one detection, 13% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 395 | 66% |
| 2 years | 125 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 68 | 11% |
| 6 to 10 years | 7.9 | 1.3% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 23.25, 120.25 and holds 78% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 35 | 36 |
| 2013 | 58 | 53 |
| 2014 | 93 | 89 |
| 2015 | 128 | 125 |
| 2016 | 31 | 35 |
| 2017 | 72 | 69 |
| 2018 | 68 | 69 |
| 2019 | 55 | 51 |
| 2020 | 68 | 71 |
| 2021 | 90 | 100 |
| 2022 | 47 | 51 |
| 2023 | 97 | 102 |
| 2024 | 49 | 50 |
| 2025 | 55 | 67 |
Other regions of Taiwan
- Changhua80 km² in an average year
- Taichung City57 km² in an average year
- Yunlin57 km² in an average year
- Pingtung51 km² in an average year
- Kaohsiung City51 km² in an average year
- Chiayi41 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.