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Fire near Bittou, Burkina Faso, 14 November 2026
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What the satellites saw
Every pixel VIIRS returned inside 27 km of this fire: 206 in daylight, 55 on the night pass. A pixel is 375 m, so the squares are drawn at the size the measurement has.
Where
- Active fire
732 - Burned before
724 - Lightning first
none here - Near a road
490
Coastline and borders from Natural Earth at 110 m — regional context, not a survey. Each layer above is its own address, so a view can be shared.
A fire was first detected here at 12:29 UTC on 14 November 2026, 20 km E of Bittou in Centre-Est, Burkina Faso. At its most recent pass it was putting out 5,143 megawatts of radiative power across 261 separate satellite detections.
The detections span about 23.2 km of ground.
Around 77,951 people live within 25 km.
When the satellite first saw it
In local solar time the first detection falls at 12:28, which is the early afternoon. VIIRS passes about 01:30 and 13:30 local solar, so this is when the satellite looked: the fire began somewhere in the twelve hours before.
It was seen across 13.6 hours of satellite passes.
21% of the detections came from the night pass.
What this ground has done before
This ground has burned before. Our archive records fire here in 2015, 2018, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, across 17 days, most recently on 2026-11-08.
Wind and weather
At the fire, wind was 13 km/h from the E, carrying smoke and embers towards the W. Temperature 35°C, relative humidity 19%.
Twelve hours on, the forecast has wind at 11 km/h from the ENE. These are model figures at roughly 10 km resolution, not a reading taken at the fire.
How it compares
By radiative power this is the 5th largest fire burning anywhere on Earth in the current window.
Where analysis would go
This fire is below the threshold at which the screening pass records a score.
Read from satellite detections and weather. No roads, no land cover, no ground visit.
What else this page knows
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A detection is a heat signature at 375 m, about three hours behind the satellite. Cloud, smoke and canopy hide fires; each satellite passes twice a day. Not for evacuation or life-safety decisions — follow your local fire service.
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