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Wildfires in Western
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 17,480 km² of Western at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 3,680 km², ranking 8th 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 2016, with 4,880 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 2,530 km². The 2021–2025 average is 35% 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.
February, March and April together hold 84% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 15 March 2012, with detections in 489 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 17,480 km² with at least one detection, 51% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 4,390 | 25% |
| 2 years | 4,090 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 7,250 | 41% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1,730 | 10% |
| 11 years or more | 20 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 5.75, -2.25 and holds 15% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4,600 | 4,581 |
| 2013 | 4,500 | 4,570 |
| 2014 | 4,380 | 4,419 |
| 2015 | 4,100 | 4,081 |
| 2016 | 4,880 | 5,279 |
| 2017 | 3,470 | 3,232 |
| 2018 | 3,330 | 3,150 |
| 2019 | 3,900 | 3,714 |
| 2020 | 3,880 | 3,803 |
| 2021 | 2,600 | 2,483 |
| 2022 | 2,530 | 2,373 |
| 2023 | 3,290 | 3,133 |
| 2024 | 3,310 | 3,184 |
| 2025 | 2,760 | 2,713 |
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
- Sud-Comoé, Côte d'Ivoire110 km
- Comoé, Côte d'Ivoire156 km
- Agnéby, Côte d'Ivoire174 km
- Central175 km
- Ashanti235 km
- Eastern247 km