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Wildfires in Ghana
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Regions
- Ashanti6 fires
- Brong-Ahafo6 fires
- Central11 fires
- Eastern7 fires
- Greater Accra4 fires
- Northern5 fires
- Upper Eastno fires now
- Upper West1 fire
- Volta18 fires
- Western4 fires
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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 215,740 km² of Ghana at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 109,430 km², ranking 23rd 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 124,840 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 85,720 km². The 2021–2025 average is 11% 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.
December, January and February together hold 79% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 December 2015, with detections in 4,867 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 215,740 km² with at least one detection, 85% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 16,520 | 7.7% |
| 2 years | 16,520 | 7.7% |
| 3 to 5 years | 41,470 | 19% |
| 6 to 10 years | 98,640 | 46% |
| 11 years or more | 42,600 | 20% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 7.75, -0.75 and holds 2.5% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 92,140 | 101,075 |
| 2013 | 122,090 | 158,556 |
| 2014 | 115,210 | 145,153 |
| 2015 | 117,600 | 151,703 |
| 2016 | 115,520 | 140,485 |
| 2017 | 121,510 | 159,664 |
| 2018 | 109,470 | 135,270 |
| 2019 | 112,210 | 137,376 |
| 2020 | 124,840 | 172,560 |
| 2021 | 98,780 | 118,611 |
| 2022 | 107,500 | 137,673 |
| 2023 | 98,930 | 116,793 |
| 2024 | 110,500 | 145,076 |
| 2025 | 85,720 | 96,979 |
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
- Togo199 km
- Côte d'Ivoire369 km
- Benin431 km
- Burkina Faso495 km
- Niger598 km
- Nigeria888 km
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What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
