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Wildfires in Tennessee
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 10:26 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 17,580 km² of Tennessee at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,740 km², ranking 24th 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 2024, with 2,280 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 1,240 km². The 2021–2025 average is 18% 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.
August, September and October together hold 33% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 8 March 2021, with detections in 101 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 17,580 km² with at least one detection, 7.2% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 13,740 | 78% |
| 2 years | 2,570 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,050 | 6.0% |
| 6 to 10 years | 171 | 1.0% |
| 11 years or more | 42 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 35.75, -83.75 and holds 7.0% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,960 | 3,118 |
| 2013 | 1,330 | 2,314 |
| 2014 | 1,680 | 2,700 |
| 2015 | 1,330 | 2,312 |
| 2016 | 2,270 | 3,905 |
| 2017 | 1,650 | 2,991 |
| 2018 | 1,240 | 2,402 |
| 2019 | 1,460 | 2,621 |
| 2020 | 1,360 | 2,525 |
| 2021 | 1,640 | 3,039 |
| 2022 | 1,950 | 3,458 |
| 2023 | 2,120 | 3,562 |
| 2024 | 2,280 | 3,730 |
| 2025 | 2,090 | 3,910 |
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
- Virginia213 km
- Kentucky345 km
- Alabama390 km
- Ohio391 km
- North Carolina411 km
- South Carolina459 km