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Wildfires in Makamba
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 813 km² of Makamba at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 152 km², ranking 6th of 17 regions of Burundi.
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 2015, with 248 km² detected; the quietest was 2019, with 72 km². The 2021–2025 average is 18% lower 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.
July, August and September together hold 90% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 27 August 2013, with detections in 26 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 813 km² with at least one detection, 40% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 370 | 45% |
| 2 years | 119 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 244 | 30% |
| 6 to 10 years | 77 | 9.4% |
| 11 years or more | 5.0 | 0.6% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -4.25, 29.75 and holds 85% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 101 | 95 |
| 2013 | 231 | 235 |
| 2014 | 128 | 120 |
| 2015 | 248 | 282 |
| 2016 | 231 | 227 |
| 2017 | 98 | 92 |
| 2018 | 103 | 97 |
| 2019 | 72 | 68 |
| 2020 | 153 | 150 |
| 2021 | 108 | 97 |
| 2022 | 136 | 133 |
| 2023 | 112 | 113 |
| 2024 | 224 | 226 |
| 2025 | 189 | 182 |
Other regions of Burundi
- Ruyigi480 km² in an average year
- Cankuzo462 km² in an average year
- Rutana267 km² in an average year
- Bururi231 km² in an average year
- Cibitoke175 km² in an average year
- Bubanza113 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
- Bururi0 km
- Rutana78 km
- Kigoma, Tanzania110 km
- South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo110 km
- Ruyigi124 km
- Cankuzo124 km