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Wildfires in Haut-Ogooué
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 11:26 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 13,250 km² of Haut-Ogooué at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 3,010 km², ranking 1st of 9 regions of Gabon.
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 2012, with 3,480 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 2,610 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 67% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 July 2012, with detections in 180 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 13,250 km² with at least one detection, 57% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,960 | 22% |
| 2 years | 2,730 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 5,960 | 45% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1,570 | 12% |
| 11 years or more | 26 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -1.75, 14.25 and holds 21% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 3,480 | 3,227 |
| 2013 | 3,280 | 3,010 |
| 2014 | 3,130 | 2,832 |
| 2015 | 3,060 | 2,798 |
| 2016 | 2,980 | 2,686 |
| 2017 | 2,910 | 2,593 |
| 2018 | 3,010 | 2,720 |
| 2019 | 2,910 | 2,606 |
| 2020 | 3,030 | 2,771 |
| 2021 | 2,610 | 2,339 |
| 2022 | 2,740 | 2,457 |
| 2023 | 2,690 | 2,407 |
| 2024 | 3,280 | 3,030 |
| 2025 | 3,050 | 2,823 |
Other regions of Gabon
- Nyanga1,010 km² in an average year
- Ngounié760 km² in an average year
- Woleu-Ntem391 km² in an average year
- Ogooué-Maritime322 km² in an average year
- Ogooué-Ivindo202 km² in an average year
- Estuaire153 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.