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Wildfires in Tandjilé

Prefecture of Chad

Wildfires in Tandjilé

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 16,600 km² of Tandjilé at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 8,310 km², ranking 5th of 22 regions of Chad.

8,310 km²detected in an average year
2016busiest year, 10,490 km²
2022quietest year, 7,000 km²
Januarypeak month, 33% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 8,010 km2'122013: 9,700 km2'132014: 8,500 km2'142015: 8,730 km2'152016: 10,490 km2'162017: 8,120 km2'172018: 8,630 km2'182019: 7,190 km2'192020: 9,350 km2'202021: 8,660 km2'212022: 7,000 km2'222023: 7,090 km2'232024: 7,050 km2'242025: 7,800 km2'2510,490 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 10,490 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 7,000 km². The 2021–2025 average is 17% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 33%JFebruary: 18%FMarch: 6.4%MApril: 1.9%AMay: 0.7%MJune: 0.2%JJuly: 0.0%JAugust: 0.0%ASeptember: 0.0%SOctober: 0.1%ONovember: 9.4%NDecember: 30%D33%

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 81% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 31 December 2016, with detections in 292 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 16,600 km² with at least one detection, 90% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year7924.8%
2 years9085.5%
3 to 5 years3,51021%
6 to 10 years9,25056%
11 years or more2,14013%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 9.75, 16.25 and holds 22% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20128,0108,730
20139,70011,572
20148,5009,596
20158,7309,945
201610,49013,875
20178,1209,186
20188,6309,896
20197,1908,053
20209,35011,692
20218,66010,303
20227,0007,491
20237,0908,425
20247,0507,647
20257,8009,306

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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