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Wildfires in Nevada
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 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 13,030 km² of Nevada at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,030 km², ranking 31st 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 2018, with 2,780 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 145 km². The 2021–2025 average is 34% 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.
June, July and August together hold 63% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 8 July 2018, with detections in 431 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 13,030 km² with at least one detection, 1.2% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 12,180 | 93% |
| 2 years | 689 | 5.3% |
| 3 to 5 years | 110 | 0.8% |
| 6 to 10 years | 30 | 0.2% |
| 11 years or more | 21 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 36.25, -114.75 and holds 17% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2,280 | 3,579 |
| 2013 | 759 | 1,991 |
| 2014 | 513 | 1,780 |
| 2015 | 188 | 1,092 |
| 2016 | 753 | 1,648 |
| 2017 | 2,720 | 3,792 |
| 2018 | 2,780 | 4,632 |
| 2019 | 374 | 1,232 |
| 2020 | 1,110 | 2,292 |
| 2021 | 503 | 1,518 |
| 2022 | 428 | 1,245 |
| 2023 | 145 | 904 |
| 2024 | 520 | 1,574 |
| 2025 | 1,360 | 2,551 |
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
- Utah329 km
- California425 km
- Baja California, Mexico447 km
- Arizona494 km
- Sonora, Mexico812 km
- Colorado912 km