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Wildfires in Equatorial Guinea
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 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 4,510 km² of Equatorial Guinea at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 791 km², ranking 125th of 200 countries.
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 2020, with 1,020 km² detected; the quietest was 2017, with 540 km². The 2021–2025 average is 21% 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.
January, February and March together hold 68% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 23 February 2019, with detections in 106 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,510 km² with at least one detection, 37% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,830 | 41% |
| 2 years | 1,030 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,320 | 29% |
| 6 to 10 years | 328 | 7.3% |
| 11 years or more | 5.0 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 1.75, 11.25 and holds 17% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 572 | 507 |
| 2013 | 696 | 650 |
| 2014 | 770 | 762 |
| 2015 | 762 | 801 |
| 2016 | 808 | 762 |
| 2017 | 540 | 488 |
| 2018 | 772 | 701 |
| 2019 | 778 | 720 |
| 2020 | 1,020 | 1,004 |
| 2021 | 905 | 861 |
| 2022 | 938 | 890 |
| 2023 | 798 | 765 |
| 2024 | 853 | 817 |
| 2025 | 863 | 801 |
Nearby countries
- Democratic Republic of the Congo898,730 km² in an average year
- Angola616,940 km² in an average year
- Zambia445,810 km² in an average year
- Mozambique404,050 km² in an average year
- Central African Republic340,550 km² in an average year
- South Sudan321,060 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 countries
- Gabon423 km
- Cameroon444 km
- São Tomé and Principe527 km
- Republic of the Congo747 km
- Central African Republic1,046 km
- Nigeria1,117 km
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What sits behind each of these fires
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