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Wildfires in Mississippi
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 39,420 km² of Mississippi at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 4,210 km², ranking 13th 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 2025, with 5,650 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 3,090 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.
August, September and October together hold 35% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 14 February 2015, with detections in 200 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 39,420 km² with at least one detection, 11% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 27,040 | 69% |
| 2 years | 8,200 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 3,900 | 10% |
| 6 to 10 years | 252 | 0.6% |
| 11 years or more | 28 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 33.25, -88.75 and holds 12% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4,270 | 6,095 |
| 2013 | 4,330 | 5,836 |
| 2014 | 4,610 | 6,216 |
| 2015 | 4,200 | 5,653 |
| 2016 | 4,550 | 6,553 |
| 2017 | 4,000 | 5,907 |
| 2018 | 3,120 | 4,683 |
| 2019 | 3,340 | 4,994 |
| 2020 | 3,470 | 5,334 |
| 2021 | 3,090 | 4,836 |
| 2022 | 4,720 | 6,797 |
| 2023 | 4,280 | 6,408 |
| 2024 | 5,240 | 7,578 |
| 2025 | 5,650 | 8,040 |
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.