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Wildfires in New Valley
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 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 3,610 km² of New Valley at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 389 km², ranking 4th of 27 regions of Egypt.
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 2024, with 797 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 150 km². The 2021–2025 average is 212% 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.
May, June and July together hold 36% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 26 June 2025, with detections in 46 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,610 km² with at least one detection, 10% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,520 | 70% |
| 2 years | 726 | 20% |
| 3 to 5 years | 301 | 8.3% |
| 6 to 10 years | 49 | 1.4% |
| 11 years or more | 7.8 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 26.75, 31.25 and holds 22% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 150 | 232 |
| 2013 | 164 | 330 |
| 2014 | 180 | 339 |
| 2015 | 182 | 353 |
| 2016 | 331 | 448 |
| 2017 | 281 | 469 |
| 2018 | 364 | 513 |
| 2019 | 315 | 402 |
| 2020 | 347 | 417 |
| 2021 | 404 | 474 |
| 2022 | 526 | 689 |
| 2023 | 732 | 953 |
| 2024 | 797 | 1,105 |
| 2025 | 679 | 964 |
Other regions of Egypt
- Dakahlia668 km² in an average year
- Al Sharqia566 km² in an average year
- Beheira446 km² in an average year
- Matrouh363 km² in an average year
- Kafr el-Sheikh360 km² in an average year
- Qena306 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.