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Wildfires in Comoé

Province of Burkina Faso

Wildfires in Comoé

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 13:28 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 13,630 km² of Comoé at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 3,880 km², ranking 1st of 45 regions of Burkina Faso.

3,880 km²detected in an average year
2013busiest year, 6,980 km²
2019quietest year, 2,280 km²
Januarypeak month, 38% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 5,000 km2'122013: 6,980 km2'132014: 5,340 km2'142015: 3,930 km2'152016: 4,190 km2'162017: 4,200 km2'172018: 2,460 km2'182019: 2,280 km2'192020: 2,540 km2'202021: 2,340 km2'212022: 2,390 km2'222023: 2,880 km2'232024: 6,330 km2'242025: 3,480 km2'256,980 km2

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

The busiest year was 2013, with 6,980 km² detected; the quietest was 2019, with 2,280 km². The 2021–2025 average is 32% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 38%JFebruary: 23%FMarch: 5.7%MApril: 1.1%AMay: 0.4%MJune: 0.1%JJuly: 0.0%JAugust: 0.0%ASeptember: 0.0%SOctober: 0.1%ONovember: 3.3%NDecember: 29%D38%

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

December, January and February together hold 89% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 14 January 2024, with detections in 253 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 13,630 km² with at least one detection, 63% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year2,53019%
2 years2,52018%
3 to 5 years5,14038%
6 to 10 years3,16023%
11 years or more2782.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 10.25, -4.75 and holds 22% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20125,0004,970
20136,9807,654
20145,3405,476
20153,9304,108
20164,1904,439
20174,2004,374
20182,4602,481
20192,2802,316
20202,5402,772
20212,3402,335
20222,3902,530
20232,8802,945
20246,3307,438
20253,4803,650

Other regions of Burkina Faso

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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