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Wildfires in Poltava
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 13,550 km² of Poltava at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,600 km², ranking 8th 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 4,270 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 293 km². The 2021–2025 average is 77% 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 43% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 28 March 2017, with detections in 349 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 13,550 km² with at least one detection, 15% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 8,050 | 59% |
| 2 years | 3,480 | 26% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,910 | 14% |
| 6 to 10 years | 110 | 0.8% |
| 11 years or more | 11 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 50.25, 33.25 and holds 9.3% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,560 | 2,398 |
| 2013 | 1,120 | 1,957 |
| 2014 | 4,270 | 6,545 |
| 2015 | 3,340 | 5,606 |
| 2016 | 1,200 | 1,802 |
| 2017 | 2,430 | 3,622 |
| 2018 | 1,500 | 2,266 |
| 2019 | 2,570 | 3,815 |
| 2020 | 1,730 | 2,632 |
| 2021 | 652 | 1,066 |
| 2022 | 293 | 507 |
| 2023 | 376 | 593 |
| 2024 | 819 | 1,244 |
| 2025 | 505 | 847 |
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
- Sumy131 km
- Chernihiv153 km
- Kursk, Russian Federation179 km
- Kyiv270 km
- Cherkasy273 km
- Dnipropetrovsk277 km