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Wildfires in Hawaii
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 10:26 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 2,250 km² of Hawaii at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 260 km², ranking 41st of 51 regions of United States.
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 2022, with 513 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 144 km². The 2021–2025 average is 40% higher 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.
June, July and August together hold 33% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 4 December 2022, with detections in 151 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,250 km² with at least one detection, 12% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,720 | 77% |
| 2 years | 266 | 12% |
| 3 to 5 years | 183 | 8.1% |
| 6 to 10 years | 56 | 2.5% |
| 11 years or more | 21 | 0.9% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 19.25, -155.25 and holds 78% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 164 | 3,912 |
| 2013 | 169 | 5,206 |
| 2014 | 187 | 4,512 |
| 2015 | 221 | 6,168 |
| 2016 | 321 | 5,622 |
| 2017 | 211 | 6,340 |
| 2018 | 507 | 7,559 |
| 2019 | 169 | 169 |
| 2020 | 201 | 326 |
| 2021 | 312 | 1,894 |
| 2022 | 513 | 3,642 |
| 2023 | 256 | 1,773 |
| 2024 | 144 | 351 |
| 2025 | 263 | 2,924 |
Other regions of United States
- Texas13,010 km² in an average year
- Georgia10,210 km² in an average year
- California9,720 km² in an average year
- Florida8,510 km² in an average year
- Kansas6,780 km² in an average year
- Oklahoma6,770 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.