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Wildfires in Southwest
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 06:20 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 5,410 km² of Southwest at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,340 km², ranking 10th 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 2017, with 2,050 km² detected; the quietest was 2013, with 744 km². The 2021–2025 average is 18% 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 15 February 2016, with detections in 281 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 5,410 km² with at least one detection, 48% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,940 | 36% |
| 2 years | 863 | 16% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,370 | 25% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1,110 | 21% |
| 11 years or more | 124 | 2.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 6.25, 9.75 and holds 41% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 770 | 760 |
| 2013 | 744 | 750 |
| 2014 | 1,220 | 1,290 |
| 2015 | 1,150 | 1,204 |
| 2016 | 2,040 | 2,481 |
| 2017 | 2,050 | 2,451 |
| 2018 | 1,050 | 1,126 |
| 2019 | 966 | 992 |
| 2020 | 1,850 | 2,113 |
| 2021 | 1,600 | 1,815 |
| 2022 | 1,380 | 1,520 |
| 2023 | 1,330 | 1,455 |
| 2024 | 1,340 | 1,587 |
| 2025 | 1,330 | 1,468 |
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
- Northwest78 km
- Cross River State, Nigeria123 km
- Taraba State, Nigeria124 km
- West156 km
- Benue State, Nigeria199 km
- Ebonyi State, Nigeria221 km