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Wildfires in Ouaddaï

Prefecture of Chad

Wildfires in Ouaddaï

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 1,600 km² of Ouaddaï at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 148 km², ranking 18th of 22 regions of Chad.

148 km²detected in an average year
2021busiest year, 230 km²
2016quietest year, 70 km²
Octoberpeak month, 27% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 148 km2'122013: 148 km2'132014: 93 km2'142015: 111 km2'152016: 70 km2'162017: 90 km2'172018: 194 km2'182019: 197 km2'192020: 123 km2'202021: 230 km2'212022: 171 km2'222023: 149 km2'232024: 139 km2'242025: 204 km2'25230 km2

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

The busiest year was 2021, with 230 km² detected; the quietest was 2016, with 70 km². The 2021–2025 average is 57% higher than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 9.2%JFebruary: 9.4%FMarch: 9.3%MApril: 10%AMay: 2.6%MJune: 3.0%JJuly: 0.2%JAugust: 0.0%ASeptember: 4.4%SOctober: 27%ONovember: 12%NDecember: 13%D27%

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

October, November and December together hold 52% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 5 March 2013, with detections in 42 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 1,600 km² with at least one detection, 5.7% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year1,29080%
2 years22214%
3 to 5 years835.2%
6 to 10 years7.20.5%
11 years or more0.00.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 13.25, 20.75 and holds 31% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012148126
2013148126
20149381
201511197
20167059
20179085
2018194172
2019197172
2020123112
2021230200
2022171146
2023149128
2024139125
2025204185

Other regions of Chad

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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