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Wildfires in Katanga
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 472,650 km² of Katanga at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 334,700 km², ranking 1st of 11 regions of Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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 2025, with 348,900 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 306,870 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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.
June, July and August together hold 73% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 9 July 2025, with detections in 9,588 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 472,650 km² with at least one detection, 99% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,320 | 0.5% |
| 2 years | 3,490 | 0.7% |
| 3 to 5 years | 28,220 | 6.0% |
| 6 to 10 years | 214,360 | 45% |
| 11 years or more | 224,260 | 47% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -8.25, 26.75 and holds 1.0% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 319,700 | 418,545 |
| 2013 | 339,040 | 465,883 |
| 2014 | 327,720 | 438,704 |
| 2015 | 342,900 | 477,285 |
| 2016 | 344,280 | 486,283 |
| 2017 | 344,210 | 482,577 |
| 2018 | 330,500 | 444,395 |
| 2019 | 345,080 | 484,926 |
| 2020 | 331,310 | 454,982 |
| 2021 | 338,350 | 468,410 |
| 2022 | 306,870 | 402,688 |
| 2023 | 336,760 | 470,902 |
| 2024 | 330,140 | 468,669 |
| 2025 | 348,900 | 503,493 |
Other regions of Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Bandundu147,050 km² in an average year
- Orientale103,230 km² in an average year
- Kasaï-Occidental76,700 km² in an average year
- Équateur73,190 km² in an average year
- Kasaï-Oriental72,810 km² in an average year
- Maniema36,370 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
- Luapula, Zambia399 km
- Maniema444 km
- Northwestern, Zambia444 km
- Rukwa, Tanzania454 km
- Moxico, Angola468 km
- South Kivu496 km