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Wildfires in Montana
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 10:27 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 29,840 km² of Montana at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,430 km², ranking 19th 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 2017, with 6,260 km² detected; the quietest was 2019, with 1,260 km². The 2021–2025 average is 13% 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.
July, August and September together hold 72% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 4 September 2017, with detections in 1,568 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 29,840 km² with at least one detection, 1.8% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 26,640 | 89% |
| 2 years | 2,650 | 8.9% |
| 3 to 5 years | 506 | 1.7% |
| 6 to 10 years | 24 | 0.1% |
| 11 years or more | 11 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 47.25, -113.25 and holds 5.1% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4,590 | 7,995 |
| 2013 | 1,720 | 3,454 |
| 2014 | 1,400 | 2,183 |
| 2015 | 2,840 | 6,862 |
| 2016 | 1,630 | 2,892 |
| 2017 | 6,260 | 20,580 |
| 2018 | 1,780 | 4,247 |
| 2019 | 1,260 | 2,071 |
| 2020 | 1,930 | 3,326 |
| 2021 | 4,150 | 10,088 |
| 2022 | 1,300 | 3,115 |
| 2023 | 1,660 | 3,498 |
| 2024 | 2,020 | 3,948 |
| 2025 | 1,430 | 2,833 |
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
- Idaho159 km
- Washington546 km
- North Dakota790 km
- South Dakota843 km
- Oregon865 km
- Wyoming868 km