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Wildfires in Kyiv
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 11,120 km² of Kyiv at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,240 km², ranking 15th 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 2015, with 3,110 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 215 km². The 2021–2025 average is 70% 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.
March, April and May together hold 57% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 9 March 2015, with detections in 468 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 11,120 km² with at least one detection, 13% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 6,990 | 63% |
| 2 years | 2,720 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,370 | 12% |
| 6 to 10 years | 33 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 5.6 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 51.25, 29.75 and holds 10% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,180 | 1,616 |
| 2013 | 794 | 1,073 |
| 2014 | 2,890 | 4,262 |
| 2015 | 3,110 | 4,814 |
| 2016 | 1,210 | 1,625 |
| 2017 | 1,140 | 1,547 |
| 2018 | 804 | 1,070 |
| 2019 | 1,770 | 2,468 |
| 2020 | 1,650 | 2,530 |
| 2021 | 416 | 564 |
| 2022 | 1,310 | 2,239 |
| 2023 | 215 | 318 |
| 2024 | 453 | 805 |
| 2025 | 402 | 571 |
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
- Zhytomyr118 km
- Chernihiv139 km
- Gomel, Belarus166 km
- Brest, Belarus181 km
- Rivne251 km
- Poltava270 km