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Wildfires in Kherson
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 16,300 km² of Kherson at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,170 km², ranking 7th 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 2023, with 4,280 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 710 km². The 2021–2025 average is 50% 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 74% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 29 September 2023, with detections in 285 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 16,300 km² with at least one detection, 22% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 7,860 | 48% |
| 2 years | 4,860 | 30% |
| 3 to 5 years | 3,410 | 21% |
| 6 to 10 years | 169 | 1.0% |
| 11 years or more | 0.9 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 46.75, 33.25 and holds 10% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 710 | 925 |
| 2013 | 836 | 1,104 |
| 2014 | 2,060 | 2,772 |
| 2015 | 3,110 | 4,325 |
| 2016 | 2,160 | 2,853 |
| 2017 | 3,460 | 4,758 |
| 2018 | 1,600 | 2,158 |
| 2019 | 1,880 | 2,507 |
| 2020 | 1,200 | 1,618 |
| 2021 | 1,410 | 1,820 |
| 2022 | 1,760 | 2,403 |
| 2023 | 4,280 | 6,221 |
| 2024 | 2,860 | 4,121 |
| 2025 | 3,010 | 4,790 |
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
- Kharkiv2,450 km² in an average year
- Luhansk2,330 km² in an average year
- Zaporizhzhia2,230 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
- Dnipropetrovsk111 km
- Mykolaiv126 km
- Zaporizhzhia187 km
- Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Russian Federation225 km
- Kirovohrad251 km
- Bender, Moldova266 km