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Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 2026-09-21

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 171,980 km² of Vietnam at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 43,890 km², ranking 44th of 200 countries.

43,890 km²detected in an average year
2015busiest year, 60,000 km²
2022quietest year, 28,400 km²
Marchpeak month, 30% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 47,410 km2'122013: 50,050 km2'132014: 59,550 km2'142015: 60,000 km2'152016: 54,090 km2'162017: 33,090 km2'172018: 38,400 km2'182019: 46,330 km2'192020: 45,510 km2'202021: 38,000 km2'212022: 28,400 km2'222023: 40,060 km2'232024: 41,700 km2'242025: 31,840 km2'2560,000 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2015, with 60,000 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 28,400 km². The 2021–2025 average is 34% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 7.7%JFebruary: 16%FMarch: 30%MApril: 20%AMay: 7.3%MJune: 3.3%JJuly: 1.9%JAugust: 2.7%ASeptember: 2.3%SOctober: 2.1%ONovember: 2.5%NDecember: 3.7%D30%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

February, March and April together hold 66% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 6 March 2012, with detections in 1,931 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 171,980 km² with at least one detection, 52% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year51,77030%
2 years31,16018%
3 to 5 years50,73029%
6 to 10 years33,79020%
11 years or more4,5502.6%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 13.25, 107.75 and holds 3.5% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
201247,41062,039
201350,05064,168
201459,55080,433
201560,00079,782
201654,09070,289
201733,09037,710
201838,40046,488
201946,33057,802
202045,51056,119
202138,00045,123
202228,40031,203
202340,06047,020
202441,70047,728
202531,84035,191

Nearby countries

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 countries

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What sits behind each of these fires

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What is actually burning
What is actually burningThe ESA WorldCover class under every detection, read at 10 m. Forest, cropland, shrub or built-up, named rather than guessed.
Has this ground burned before
Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.
Alerts that stay quiet
Alerts that stay quietA fire must miss two passes before we say it stopped and grow by more than half again before we say it spread. Nothing is said twice.