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Wildfires in Ohio
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 5,180 km² of Ohio at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 529 km², ranking 37th 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 674 km² detected; the quietest was 2019, with 424 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.
July, August and September together hold 40% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 22 March 2012, with detections in 65 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 5,180 km² with at least one detection, 5.9% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 4,460 | 86% |
| 2 years | 419 | 8.1% |
| 3 to 5 years | 160 | 3.1% |
| 6 to 10 years | 63 | 1.2% |
| 11 years or more | 79 | 1.5% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 39.25, -84.25 and holds 19% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 674 | 6,179 |
| 2013 | 522 | 4,796 |
| 2014 | 548 | 4,606 |
| 2015 | 546 | 4,670 |
| 2016 | 533 | 4,993 |
| 2017 | 526 | 4,766 |
| 2018 | 448 | 4,266 |
| 2019 | 424 | 4,157 |
| 2020 | 490 | 3,934 |
| 2021 | 495 | 4,625 |
| 2022 | 509 | 4,236 |
| 2023 | 622 | 5,173 |
| 2024 | 539 | 4,986 |
| 2025 | 531 | 5,248 |
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.