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Wildfires in Sanmatenga
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 10:27 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 4,550 km² of Sanmatenga at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 600 km², ranking 24th of 45 regions of Burkina Faso.
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 2025, with 2,070 km² detected; the quietest was 2015, with 31 km². The 2021–2025 average is 2996% higher 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.
October, November and December together hold 74% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 12 November 2021, with detections in 93 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,550 km² with at least one detection, 23% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,090 | 46% |
| 2 years | 1,420 | 31% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,030 | 23% |
| 6 to 10 years | 6.0 | 0.1% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 13.25, -0.75 and holds 37% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 46 | 40 |
| 2013 | 65 | 54 |
| 2014 | 54 | 53 |
| 2015 | 31 | 28 |
| 2016 | 40 | 35 |
| 2017 | 31 | 27 |
| 2018 | 36 | 31 |
| 2019 | 58 | 48 |
| 2020 | 713 | 644 |
| 2021 | 1,440 | 1,392 |
| 2022 | 569 | 511 |
| 2023 | 1,740 | 1,722 |
| 2024 | 1,520 | 1,501 |
| 2025 | 2,070 | 1,988 |
Other regions of Burkina Faso
- Comoé3,880 km² in an average year
- Kompienga3,630 km² in an average year
- Tapoa3,480 km² in an average year
- Poni3,160 km² in an average year
- Sissili2,520 km² in an average year
- Houet2,450 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.