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Wildfires in New York
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 2,670 km² of New York at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 262 km², ranking 40th 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 350 km² detected; the quietest was 2017, with 179 km². The 2021–2025 average is 25% higher 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 44% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 9 November 2024, with detections in 25 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,670 km² with at least one detection, 6.7% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,240 | 84% |
| 2 years | 254 | 10% |
| 3 to 5 years | 132 | 4.9% |
| 6 to 10 years | 29 | 1.1% |
| 11 years or more | 19 | 0.7% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 42.25, -73.75 and holds 26% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 251 | 982 |
| 2013 | 222 | 836 |
| 2014 | 203 | 732 |
| 2015 | 264 | 786 |
| 2016 | 306 | 770 |
| 2017 | 179 | 597 |
| 2018 | 210 | 602 |
| 2019 | 192 | 655 |
| 2020 | 288 | 682 |
| 2021 | 292 | 640 |
| 2022 | 293 | 658 |
| 2023 | 290 | 653 |
| 2024 | 331 | 690 |
| 2025 | 350 | 728 |
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
- New Jersey171 km
- Massachusetts254 km
- Delaware324 km
- Quebec, Canada391 km
- Maryland404 km
- Ontario, Canada502 km