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Wildfires in Eritrea
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 5,890 km² of Eritrea at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 780 km², ranking 126th 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 2025, with 1,550 km² detected; the quietest was 2016, with 279 km². The 2021–2025 average is 166% 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.
February, March and April together hold 37% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 19 January 2019, with detections in 50 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 5,890 km² with at least one detection, 20% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 3,570 | 61% |
| 2 years | 1,120 | 19% |
| 3 to 5 years | 976 | 17% |
| 6 to 10 years | 208 | 3.5% |
| 11 years or more | 12 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 14.25, 37.25 and holds 18% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 428 | 781 |
| 2013 | 489 | 705 |
| 2014 | 466 | 591 |
| 2015 | 530 | 588 |
| 2016 | 279 | 290 |
| 2017 | 316 | 326 |
| 2018 | 394 | 387 |
| 2019 | 669 | 676 |
| 2020 | 1,520 | 1,476 |
| 2021 | 941 | 915 |
| 2022 | 1,180 | 1,212 |
| 2023 | 1,410 | 1,378 |
| 2024 | 740 | 748 |
| 2025 | 1,550 | 1,523 |
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
- Djibouti706 km
- Ethiopia742 km
- South Sudan750 km
- Somaliland910 km
- Yemen927 km
- Uganda1,414 km
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
