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Wildfires in Soum
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 3,960 km² of Soum at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 564 km², ranking 27th 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 2023, with 1,640 km² detected; the quietest was 2017, with 2.4 km². The 2021–2025 average is 15221% 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 77% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 November 2023, with detections in 86 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,960 km² with at least one detection, 28% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,630 | 41% |
| 2 years | 1,210 | 31% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,110 | 28% |
| 6 to 10 years | 11 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 14.25, -0.75 and holds 53% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8.4 | 7 |
| 2013 | 13 | 11 |
| 2014 | 7.2 | 6 |
| 2015 | 6.0 | 5 |
| 2016 | 8.4 | 7 |
| 2017 | 2.4 | 2 |
| 2018 | 23 | 20 |
| 2019 | 85 | 76 |
| 2020 | 1,130 | 1,066 |
| 2021 | 1,040 | 988 |
| 2022 | 1,110 | 1,002 |
| 2023 | 1,640 | 1,556 |
| 2024 | 1,250 | 1,136 |
| 2025 | 1,570 | 1,447 |
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.
Nearby regions
- Oudalan55 km
- Sanmatenga111 km
- Séno121 km
- Bam121 km
- Namentenga166 km
- Loroum171 km