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Wildfires in Ziro

Province of Burkina Faso

Wildfires in Ziro

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 4,300 km² of Ziro at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,510 km², ranking 11th of 45 regions of Burkina Faso.

1,510 km²detected in an average year
2017busiest year, 1,980 km²
2025quietest year, 1,030 km²
Decemberpeak month, 35% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 1,180 km2'122013: 1,900 km2'132014: 1,660 km2'142015: 1,830 km2'152016: 1,950 km2'162017: 1,980 km2'172018: 1,340 km2'182019: 1,480 km2'192020: 1,340 km2'202021: 1,550 km2'212022: 1,200 km2'222023: 1,350 km2'232024: 1,400 km2'242025: 1,030 km2'251,980 km2

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

The busiest year was 2017, with 1,980 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 1,030 km². The 2021–2025 average is 23% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 31%JFebruary: 16%FMarch: 4.6%MApril: 0.7%AMay: 0.2%MJune: 0.1%JJuly: 0.0%JAugust: 0.0%ASeptember: 0.0%SOctober: 0.5%ONovember: 11%NDecember: 35%D35%

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 83% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 17 December 2015, with detections in 79 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 4,300 km² with at least one detection, 71% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year67516%
2 years57813%
3 to 5 years1,31031%
6 to 10 years1,54036%
11 years or more1974.6%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 11.75, -1.75 and holds 37% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20121,1801,156
20131,9002,189
20141,6601,779
20151,8302,063
20161,9502,200
20171,9802,262
20181,3401,397
20191,4801,665
20201,3401,486
20211,5501,793
20221,2001,210
20231,3501,467
20241,4001,627
20251,0301,085

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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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