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Wildfires in Donetsk
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 21,760 km² of Donetsk at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 3,790 km², ranking 1st of 25 regions of Ukraine.
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 2017, with 6,640 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 1,470 km². The 2021–2025 average is 8.9% higher 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.
July, August and September together hold 60% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 30 July 2025, with detections in 626 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 21,760 km² with at least one detection, 40% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 6,790 | 31% |
| 2 years | 6,290 | 29% |
| 3 to 5 years | 7,920 | 36% |
| 6 to 10 years | 708 | 3.3% |
| 11 years or more | 52 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 47.25, 37.75 and holds 26% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,580 | 7,684 |
| 2013 | 1,570 | 7,315 |
| 2014 | 6,630 | 14,209 |
| 2015 | 4,350 | 10,080 |
| 2016 | 3,760 | 9,422 |
| 2017 | 6,640 | 13,876 |
| 2018 | 2,370 | 7,481 |
| 2019 | 2,670 | 8,438 |
| 2020 | 4,040 | 10,242 |
| 2021 | 1,470 | 5,671 |
| 2022 | 3,730 | 6,528 |
| 2023 | 2,460 | 4,337 |
| 2024 | 6,410 | 12,552 |
| 2025 | 5,410 | 10,429 |
Other regions of Ukraine
- Odessa2,660 km² in an average year
- Dnipropetrovsk2,630 km² in an average year
- Kharkiv2,450 km² in an average year
- Luhansk2,330 km² in an average year
- Zaporizhzhia2,230 km² in an average year
- Kherson2,170 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
- Luhansk133 km
- Zaporizhzhia195 km
- Krasnodar Krai, Russian Federation225 km
- Rostov, Russian Federation264 km
- Kharkiv277 km
- Republic of Adygea, Russian Federation338 km