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Wildfires in Northeast Vietnam
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 12:28 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 2,120 km² of Northeast Vietnam at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 274 km², ranking 38th of 63 regions of Vietnam.
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 2022, with 412 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 141 km². The 2021–2025 average is 18% 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.
March, April and May together hold 54% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 10 May 2014, with detections in 57 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,120 km² with at least one detection, 21% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,170 | 55% |
| 2 years | 510 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 403 | 19% |
| 6 to 10 years | 38 | 1.8% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 22.25, 105.75 and holds 47% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 367 | 351 |
| 2013 | 257 | 251 |
| 2014 | 310 | 297 |
| 2015 | 411 | 384 |
| 2016 | 364 | 353 |
| 2017 | 250 | 231 |
| 2018 | 149 | 141 |
| 2019 | 194 | 187 |
| 2020 | 141 | 124 |
| 2021 | 243 | 233 |
| 2022 | 412 | 421 |
| 2023 | 334 | 320 |
| 2024 | 203 | 193 |
| 2025 | 206 | 192 |
Other regions of Vietnam
- Gia Lai4,240 km² in an average year
- Điện Biên4,070 km² in an average year
- Đắk Lắk3,130 km² in an average year
- Sơn La3,100 km² in an average year
- Kon Tum2,290 km² in an average year
- Quảng Nam1,730 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
- Lạng Sơn51 km
- Tuyên Quang51 km
- Cao Bằng55 km
- Thái Nguyên55 km
- Hà Giang75 km
- Yên Bái117 km