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Wildfires in Littoral

Province of Cameroon

Wildfires in Littoral

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 7,920 km² of Littoral at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,810 km², ranking 9th of 10 regions of Cameroon.

1,810 km²detected in an average year
2020busiest year, 2,550 km²
2013quietest year, 1,020 km²
Februarypeak month, 65% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 1,160 km2'122013: 1,020 km2'132014: 1,520 km2'142015: 1,620 km2'152016: 2,290 km2'162017: 2,050 km2'172018: 1,220 km2'182019: 1,410 km2'192020: 2,550 km2'202021: 2,150 km2'212022: 2,290 km2'222023: 2,530 km2'232024: 1,600 km2'242025: 1,960 km2'252,550 km2

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

The busiest year was 2020, with 2,550 km² detected; the quietest was 2013, with 1,020 km². The 2021–2025 average is 38% higher than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 16%JFebruary: 65%FMarch: 15%MApril: 1.0%AMay: 0.3%MJune: 0.1%JJuly: 0.0%JAugust: 0.0%ASeptember: 0.0%SOctober: 0.0%ONovember: 0.2%NDecember: 1.9%D65%

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

January, February and March together hold 96% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 18 February 2023, with detections in 448 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 7,920 km² with at least one detection, 52% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year2,26028%
2 years1,53019%
3 to 5 years2,88036%
6 to 10 years1,21015%
11 years or more430.5%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 4.25, 9.75 and holds 29% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20121,1601,207
20131,0201,001
20141,5201,583
20151,6201,737
20162,2902,749
20172,0502,283
20181,2201,356
20191,4101,487
20202,5503,163
20212,1502,537
20222,2902,618
20232,5302,857
20241,6001,644
20251,9602,165

Other regions of Cameroon

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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