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Wildfires in United Kingdom

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 2026-09-21

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 11,910 km² of United Kingdom at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,160 km², ranking 115th of 200 countries.

1,160 km²detected in an average year
2025busiest year, 1,880 km²
2024quietest year, 590 km²
Aprilpeak month, 13% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 1,170 km2'122013: 1,140 km2'132014: 926 km2'142015: 1,220 km2'152016: 1,010 km2'162017: 1,250 km2'172018: 1,330 km2'182019: 1,530 km2'192020: 1,080 km2'202021: 908 km2'212022: 1,320 km2'222023: 861 km2'232024: 590 km2'242025: 1,880 km2'251,880 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2025, with 1,880 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 590 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 4.1%JFebruary: 6.0%FMarch: 12%MApril: 13%AMay: 10%MJune: 8.8%JJuly: 11%JAugust: 10%ASeptember: 9.1%SOctober: 6.4%ONovember: 6.5%NDecember: 3.7%D13%

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 34% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 27 March 2012, with detections in 213 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 11,910 km² with at least one detection, 6.7% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year9,71082%
2 years1,39012%
3 to 5 years6585.5%
6 to 10 years820.7%
11 years or more620.5%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 51.75, -3.75 and holds 16% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20121,1704,396
20131,1405,007
20149264,875
20151,2205,287
20161,0104,079
20171,2504,368
20181,3304,966
20191,5305,091
20201,0803,970
20219083,600
20221,3204,423
20238613,354
20245902,334
20251,8804,669

Nearby countries

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 countries

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What is actually burning
What is actually burningThe ESA WorldCover class under every detection, read at 10 m. Forest, cropland, shrub or built-up, named rather than guessed.
Has this ground burned before
Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.
Alerts that stay quiet
Alerts that stay quietA fire must miss two passes before we say it stopped and grow by more than half again before we say it spread. Nothing is said twice.