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Wildfires in Nebraska
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 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 13,690 km² of Nebraska at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,160 km², ranking 28th 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 2,240 km² detected; the quietest was 2019, with 790 km². The 2021–2025 average is 16% 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.
March, April and May together hold 51% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 30 August 2012, with detections in 390 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 13,690 km² with at least one detection, 3.0% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 11,850 | 87% |
| 2 years | 1,430 | 10% |
| 3 to 5 years | 372 | 2.7% |
| 6 to 10 years | 38 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 5.5 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 42.25, -97.25 and holds 11% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2,240 | 2,914 |
| 2013 | 1,130 | 1,544 |
| 2014 | 1,070 | 1,446 |
| 2015 | 1,200 | 1,573 |
| 2016 | 1,100 | 1,492 |
| 2017 | 956 | 1,362 |
| 2018 | 934 | 1,316 |
| 2019 | 790 | 1,089 |
| 2020 | 1,230 | 1,671 |
| 2021 | 1,220 | 1,739 |
| 2022 | 1,010 | 1,419 |
| 2023 | 996 | 1,405 |
| 2024 | 1,230 | 1,725 |
| 2025 | 1,180 | 1,648 |
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.