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Wildfires in Sumy
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 10,060 km² of Sumy at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,080 km², ranking 16th 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 2,720 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 118 km². The 2021–2025 average is 65% 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 17 March 2015, with detections in 285 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 10,060 km² with at least one detection, 11% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 6,590 | 66% |
| 2 years | 2,350 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,080 | 11% |
| 6 to 10 years | 34 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 0.8 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 51.25, 34.25 and holds 10% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 798 | 1,181 |
| 2013 | 767 | 1,133 |
| 2014 | 2,720 | 4,045 |
| 2015 | 2,220 | 3,175 |
| 2016 | 868 | 1,176 |
| 2017 | 1,660 | 2,341 |
| 2018 | 1,070 | 1,529 |
| 2019 | 1,350 | 1,954 |
| 2020 | 1,120 | 1,658 |
| 2021 | 454 | 637 |
| 2022 | 118 | 169 |
| 2023 | 207 | 298 |
| 2024 | 1,180 | 2,416 |
| 2025 | 596 | 1,030 |
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
- Kursk, Russian Federation69 km
- Poltava131 km
- Chernihiv173 km
- Oryol, Russian Federation195 km
- Bryansk, Russian Federation222 km
- Belgorod, Russian Federation243 km