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Wildfires in Eastern
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 15,680 km² of Eastern at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 5,920 km², ranking 6th of 10 regions of Ghana.
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 7,240 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 4,420 km². The 2021–2025 average is 16% 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 73% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 8 January 2016, with detections in 461 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 15,680 km² with at least one detection, 72% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,190 | 14% |
| 2 years | 2,200 | 14% |
| 3 to 5 years | 4,520 | 29% |
| 6 to 10 years | 5,420 | 35% |
| 11 years or more | 1,340 | 8.5% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 6.75, -0.25 and holds 24% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4,700 | 4,851 |
| 2013 | 6,860 | 8,669 |
| 2014 | 5,780 | 6,422 |
| 2015 | 6,680 | 8,880 |
| 2016 | 7,090 | 8,209 |
| 2017 | 5,780 | 6,521 |
| 2018 | 6,590 | 8,419 |
| 2019 | 5,930 | 6,683 |
| 2020 | 7,240 | 9,025 |
| 2021 | 4,440 | 4,873 |
| 2022 | 5,670 | 6,942 |
| 2023 | 5,080 | 5,655 |
| 2024 | 6,570 | 8,900 |
| 2025 | 4,420 | 4,722 |
Other regions of Ghana
- Northern44,170 km² in an average year
- Brong-Ahafo19,690 km² in an average year
- Upper West11,680 km² in an average year
- Ashanti8,960 km² in an average year
- Volta8,420 km² in an average year
- Upper East3,760 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
- Ashanti78 km
- Brong-Ahafo124 km
- Greater Accra124 km
- Maritime, Togo165 km
- Volta175 km
- Central175 km