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Wildfires in Gambela Peoples
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 12:28 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 23,250 km² of Gambela Peoples at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 13,700 km², ranking 5th of 11 regions of Ethiopia.
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 2015, with 16,380 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 11,140 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.
January, February and March together hold 74% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 20 February 2022, with detections in 562 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 23,250 km² with at least one detection, 95% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 565 | 2.4% |
| 2 years | 506 | 2.2% |
| 3 to 5 years | 3,430 | 15% |
| 6 to 10 years | 12,660 | 54% |
| 11 years or more | 6,080 | 26% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 8.25, 34.25 and holds 16% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 11,140 | 13,100 |
| 2013 | 13,830 | 17,549 |
| 2014 | 13,170 | 16,601 |
| 2015 | 16,380 | 24,888 |
| 2016 | 14,040 | 20,619 |
| 2017 | 14,480 | 20,115 |
| 2018 | 14,810 | 21,120 |
| 2019 | 12,190 | 15,634 |
| 2020 | 11,200 | 15,168 |
| 2021 | 15,000 | 21,619 |
| 2022 | 13,570 | 19,476 |
| 2023 | 14,470 | 20,848 |
| 2024 | 12,880 | 18,216 |
| 2025 | 14,650 | 20,673 |
Other regions of Ethiopia
- Benishangul-Gumuz34,710 km² in an average year
- Oromia25,580 km² in an average year
- Southern Nations21,450 km² in an average year
- Amhara17,220 km² in an average year
- Tigray4,390 km² in an average year
- Afar1,020 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
- Oromia55 km
- Upper Nile, South Sudan123 km
- Jonglei, South Sudan156 km
- Blue Nile, Sudan222 km
- Southern Nations276 km
- Benishangul-Gumuz371 km