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Wildfires in Minnesota
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 13:28 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 16,600 km² of Minnesota at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,440 km², ranking 25th 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 2020, with 1,920 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 1,080 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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.
April, May and June together hold 55% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 August 2021, with detections in 141 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 16,600 km² with at least one detection, 3.7% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 14,160 | 85% |
| 2 years | 1,830 | 11% |
| 3 to 5 years | 549 | 3.3% |
| 6 to 10 years | 52 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 7.9 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 44.75, -93.25 and holds 7.5% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,850 | 2,397 |
| 2013 | 1,140 | 1,482 |
| 2014 | 1,240 | 1,588 |
| 2015 | 1,570 | 2,009 |
| 2016 | 1,370 | 1,783 |
| 2017 | 1,370 | 1,847 |
| 2018 | 1,300 | 1,746 |
| 2019 | 1,380 | 1,819 |
| 2020 | 1,920 | 2,540 |
| 2021 | 1,490 | 2,243 |
| 2022 | 1,080 | 1,426 |
| 2023 | 1,480 | 1,970 |
| 2024 | 1,240 | 1,686 |
| 2025 | 1,690 | 2,225 |
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.