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Wildfires in Burkina Faso

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 06:20 UTC

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Wildfires in Burkina Faso

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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 167,820 km² of Burkina Faso at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 46,160 km², ranking 42nd of 200 countries.

46,160 km²detected in an average year
2024busiest year, 57,580 km²
2022quietest year, 35,830 km²
Decemberpeak month, 28% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 43,020 km2'122013: 55,140 km2'132014: 48,380 km2'142015: 43,770 km2'152016: 48,770 km2'162017: 49,360 km2'172018: 36,480 km2'182019: 40,650 km2'192020: 40,770 km2'202021: 43,110 km2'212022: 35,830 km2'222023: 47,790 km2'232024: 57,580 km2'242025: 55,560 km2'2557,580 km2

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

The busiest year was 2024, with 57,580 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 35,830 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 22%JFebruary: 13%FMarch: 5.4%MApril: 1.9%AMay: 0.8%MJune: 0.3%JJuly: 0.0%JAugust: 0.0%ASeptember: 0.0%SOctober: 5.3%ONovember: 23%NDecember: 28%D28%

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

November, December and January together hold 73% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 December 2016, with detections in 1,053 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 167,820 km² with at least one detection, 55% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year44,84027%
2 years30,09018%
3 to 5 years48,08029%
6 to 10 years40,84024%
11 years or more3,9802.4%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 11.75, 1.25 and holds 3.3% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
201243,02042,367
201355,14058,924
201448,38050,044
201543,77044,679
201648,77052,292
201749,36052,676
201836,48036,468
201940,65042,461
202040,77043,130
202143,11045,078
202235,83036,154
202347,79049,329
202457,58061,268
202555,56056,872

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.

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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.