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Wildfires in Kharkiv
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 19,220 km² of Kharkiv at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,450 km², ranking 4th 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 2014, with 4,700 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 985 km². The 2021–2025 average is 25% 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.
August, September and October together hold 49% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 3 April 2017, with detections in 348 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 19,220 km² with at least one detection, 20% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 9,890 | 51% |
| 2 years | 5,570 | 29% |
| 3 to 5 years | 3,600 | 19% |
| 6 to 10 years | 148 | 0.8% |
| 11 years or more | 1.6 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 49.75, 37.75 and holds 10% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,520 | 2,664 |
| 2013 | 1,530 | 2,126 |
| 2014 | 4,700 | 6,776 |
| 2015 | 4,260 | 6,118 |
| 2016 | 1,710 | 2,385 |
| 2017 | 3,100 | 4,417 |
| 2018 | 2,200 | 3,118 |
| 2019 | 2,480 | 3,471 |
| 2020 | 2,570 | 3,712 |
| 2021 | 1,180 | 1,624 |
| 2022 | 1,620 | 2,913 |
| 2023 | 985 | 1,435 |
| 2024 | 4,320 | 7,683 |
| 2025 | 2,170 | 3,519 |
Other regions of Ukraine
- Donetsk3,790 km² in an average year
- Odessa2,660 km² in an average year
- Dnipropetrovsk2,630 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
- Voronezh, Russian Federation153 km
- Belgorod, Russian Federation166 km
- Luhansk182 km
- Kursk, Russian Federation243 km
- Donetsk277 km
- Zaporizhzhia288 km