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Wildfires in Gabon
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 31,910 km² of Gabon at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 6,140 km², ranking 73rd 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 2013, with 7,590 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 5,260 km². The 2021–2025 average is 10% lower 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.
July, August and September together hold 53% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 13 September 2015, with detections in 418 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 31,910 km² with at least one detection, 44% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 10,570 | 33% |
| 2 years | 7,350 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 11,440 | 36% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2,420 | 7.6% |
| 11 years or more | 128 | 0.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -1.75, 9.75 and holds 8.7% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6,600 | 7,592 |
| 2013 | 7,590 | 8,395 |
| 2014 | 6,070 | 6,787 |
| 2015 | 6,010 | 7,173 |
| 2016 | 6,320 | 7,668 |
| 2017 | 5,700 | 7,211 |
| 2018 | 6,130 | 8,298 |
| 2019 | 6,040 | 8,351 |
| 2020 | 6,260 | 8,327 |
| 2021 | 5,260 | 7,160 |
| 2022 | 5,620 | 7,349 |
| 2023 | 5,610 | 7,120 |
| 2024 | 6,680 | 8,194 |
| 2025 | 6,070 | 7,766 |
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
- São Tomé and Principe400 km
- Equatorial Guinea423 km
- Republic of the Congo687 km
- Cameroon850 km
- Angola1,341 km
- Central African Republic1,415 km
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
