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Wildfires in Idaho
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 43,210 km² of Idaho at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 3,760 km², ranking 14th 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 2012, with 8,030 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 2,160 km². The 2021–2025 average is 24% 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.
August, September and October together hold 76% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 29 August 2012, with detections in 1,043 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 43,210 km² with at least one detection, 3.7% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 36,320 | 84% |
| 2 years | 5,300 | 12% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,460 | 3.4% |
| 6 to 10 years | 108 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 8.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 46.25, -114.75 and holds 6.5% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8,030 | 30,731 |
| 2013 | 4,780 | 10,261 |
| 2014 | 2,330 | 4,797 |
| 2015 | 4,710 | 12,012 |
| 2016 | 3,110 | 7,722 |
| 2017 | 3,810 | 12,792 |
| 2018 | 3,360 | 7,541 |
| 2019 | 2,270 | 4,200 |
| 2020 | 2,860 | 6,826 |
| 2021 | 3,910 | 12,471 |
| 2022 | 3,580 | 11,061 |
| 2023 | 2,160 | 4,404 |
| 2024 | 5,550 | 17,464 |
| 2025 | 2,170 | 5,574 |
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.
Nearby regions
- Montana159 km
- Washington497 km
- Oregon713 km
- Utah849 km
- Wyoming879 km
- North Dakota924 km