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Wildfires in South
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 13,720 km² of South at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,230 km², ranking 8th of 10 regions of Cameroon.
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 2022, with 3,380 km² detected; the quietest was 2013, with 1,050 km². The 2021–2025 average is 35% 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.
January, February and March together hold 92% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 17 February 2021, with detections in 460 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 13,720 km² with at least one detection, 32% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 5,810 | 42% |
| 2 years | 3,530 | 26% |
| 3 to 5 years | 3,700 | 27% |
| 6 to 10 years | 643 | 4.7% |
| 11 years or more | 35 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 3.25, 10.25 and holds 12% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,610 | 1,587 |
| 2013 | 1,050 | 1,059 |
| 2014 | 2,440 | 2,251 |
| 2015 | 1,440 | 1,378 |
| 2016 | 3,350 | 3,364 |
| 2017 | 1,380 | 1,291 |
| 2018 | 1,560 | 1,426 |
| 2019 | 1,620 | 1,584 |
| 2020 | 3,350 | 3,269 |
| 2021 | 2,630 | 2,656 |
| 2022 | 3,380 | 3,490 |
| 2023 | 2,620 | 2,843 |
| 2024 | 2,480 | 2,461 |
| 2025 | 2,270 | 2,408 |
Other regions of Cameroon
- North34,290 km² in an average year
- Adamawa29,230 km² in an average year
- Centre16,740 km² in an average year
- East16,030 km² in an average year
- Northwest8,200 km² in an average year
- Far North6,850 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
- Littoral124 km
- Kié-Ntem, Equatorial Guinea157 km
- Centro Sur, Equatorial Guinea166 km
- Wele-Nzas, Equatorial Guinea175 km
- Litoral, Equatorial Guinea175 km
- West229 km