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Wildfires in Luhansk
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 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 16,970 km² of Luhansk at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,330 km², ranking 5th 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 5,020 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 671 km². The 2021–2025 average is 22% 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.
July, August and September together hold 55% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 21 August 2017, with detections in 364 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 16,970 km² with at least one detection, 24% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 7,900 | 47% |
| 2 years | 5,000 | 29% |
| 3 to 5 years | 3,880 | 23% |
| 6 to 10 years | 179 | 1.1% |
| 11 years or more | 15 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 48.25, 38.75 and holds 23% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,680 | 3,419 |
| 2013 | 917 | 2,354 |
| 2014 | 5,020 | 8,497 |
| 2015 | 2,900 | 4,527 |
| 2016 | 1,630 | 2,751 |
| 2017 | 4,240 | 6,386 |
| 2018 | 2,140 | 3,633 |
| 2019 | 1,260 | 2,424 |
| 2020 | 3,420 | 5,537 |
| 2021 | 671 | 1,236 |
| 2022 | 1,690 | 3,601 |
| 2023 | 1,310 | 2,857 |
| 2024 | 3,950 | 7,596 |
| 2025 | 1,850 | 3,778 |
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
- 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
- Donetsk133 km
- Kharkiv182 km
- Rostov, Russian Federation217 km
- Voronezh, Russian Federation233 km
- Zaporizhzhia266 km
- Krasnodar Krai, Russian Federation335 km