AURSEE30,317 fires nowSign in

Aursee

Wildfires in Central African Republic

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 07:28 UTC

Follow Central African Republic: fire alerts by email
26fires
288 MWradiative power
43satellite detections
0with a page
Wildfires in Central African Republic

Regions

None of these fires is large enough for a page of its own. See them on the map.

Fire alerts for Central African Republic

Free. One email when satellites detect fire anywhere in Central African Republic, then at most one update a day while fires continue.

Free. Pick a town and we email you when satellites detect fire within 30 km of it.

30 km around Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic

Fire history, 2012–2025

Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-21

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 576,710 km² of Central African Republic at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 340,550 km², ranking 7th of 200 countries.

340,550 km²detected in an average year
2016busiest year, 389,210 km²
2012quietest year, 275,250 km²
Januarypeak month, 36% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 275,250 km2'122013: 332,730 km2'132014: 341,500 km2'142015: 363,800 km2'152016: 389,210 km2'162017: 341,710 km2'172018: 367,930 km2'182019: 323,750 km2'192020: 373,700 km2'202021: 352,620 km2'212022: 351,330 km2'222023: 310,510 km2'232024: 335,890 km2'242025: 307,760 km2'25389,210 km2

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

The busiest year was 2016, with 389,210 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 275,250 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 36%JFebruary: 21%FMarch: 4.3%MApril: 0.8%AMay: 0.2%MJune: 0.1%JJuly: 0.1%JAugust: 0.0%ASeptember: 0.0%SOctober: 0.5%ONovember: 7.5%NDecember: 30%D36%

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 86% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 4 January 2018, with detections in 12,639 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 576,710 km² with at least one detection, 95% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year13,7602.4%
2 years14,0602.4%
3 to 5 years70,54012%
6 to 10 years344,78060%
11 years or more133,57023%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 6.75, 19.25 and holds 0.9% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

Show the table
YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012275,250304,103
2013332,730397,329
2014341,500416,728
2015363,800469,307
2016389,210518,696
2017341,710419,475
2018367,930485,975
2019323,750390,311
2020373,700485,931
2021352,620437,172
2022351,330451,300
2023310,510368,736
2024335,890433,235
2025307,760370,670

Nearby countries

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 countries

Embed this map on your site

A live map of the fires here, updated every hour. Paste the code into your page.

What sits behind each of these fires

Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.

What is actually burning
What is actually burningThe ESA WorldCover class under every detection, read at 10 m. Forest, cropland, shrub or built-up, named rather than guessed.
Has this ground burned before
Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.
Alerts that stay quiet
Alerts that stay quietA fire must miss two passes before we say it stopped and grow by more than half again before we say it spread. Nothing is said twice.