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Wildfires in Greater Accra
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 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 1,970 km² of Greater Accra at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 344 km², ranking 10th 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 2015, with 512 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 194 km². The 2021–2025 average is 15% 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 64% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 January 2020, with detections in 57 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,970 km² with at least one detection, 36% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 754 | 38% |
| 2 years | 508 | 26% |
| 3 to 5 years | 576 | 29% |
| 6 to 10 years | 128 | 6.5% |
| 11 years or more | 4.9 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 5.75, 0.25 and holds 50% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 250 | 245 |
| 2013 | 385 | 385 |
| 2014 | 303 | 286 |
| 2015 | 512 | 531 |
| 2016 | 367 | 371 |
| 2017 | 290 | 288 |
| 2018 | 374 | 385 |
| 2019 | 290 | 376 |
| 2020 | 508 | 530 |
| 2021 | 248 | 254 |
| 2022 | 360 | 350 |
| 2023 | 309 | 335 |
| 2024 | 426 | 451 |
| 2025 | 194 | 208 |
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
- Eastern5,920 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
- Central123 km
- Eastern124 km
- Maritime, Togo156 km
- Mono, Benin199 km
- Ashanti200 km
- Kouffo, Benin235 km