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Wildfires in Northern
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 68,420 km² of Northern at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 44,170 km², ranking 1st 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 2017, with 51,720 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 34,300 km². The 2021–2025 average is 7.3% 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.
November, December and January together hold 89% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 11 December 2017, with detections in 2,375 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 68,420 km² with at least one detection, 99% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 411 | 0.6% |
| 2 years | 596 | 0.9% |
| 3 to 5 years | 5,350 | 7.8% |
| 6 to 10 years | 41,460 | 61% |
| 11 years or more | 20,610 | 30% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 8.75, -0.25 and holds 5.0% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 37,110 | 41,805 |
| 2013 | 49,240 | 66,067 |
| 2014 | 47,980 | 63,137 |
| 2015 | 45,310 | 57,569 |
| 2016 | 43,450 | 53,037 |
| 2017 | 51,720 | 73,509 |
| 2018 | 42,520 | 52,041 |
| 2019 | 44,610 | 56,042 |
| 2020 | 49,620 | 70,802 |
| 2021 | 42,740 | 53,016 |
| 2022 | 45,240 | 58,726 |
| 2023 | 40,950 | 49,665 |
| 2024 | 43,530 | 57,124 |
| 2025 | 34,300 | 38,843 |
Other regions of Ghana
- 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
- 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
- Volta78 km
- Centre, Togo109 km
- Kara, Togo123 km
- Brong-Ahafo124 km
- Ashanti175 km
- Plateaux, Togo199 km