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Wildfires in Guinea-Bissau
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 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 27,650 km² of Guinea-Bissau at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 11,020 km², ranking 65th 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 2014, with 13,140 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 8,530 km². The 2021–2025 average is 24% 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.
March, April and May together hold 57% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 8 May 2014, with detections in 518 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 27,650 km² with at least one detection, 77% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 3,420 | 12% |
| 2 years | 3,030 | 11% |
| 3 to 5 years | 7,510 | 27% |
| 6 to 10 years | 11,640 | 42% |
| 11 years or more | 2,050 | 7.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 11.75, -14.25 and holds 12% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 12,030 | 12,900 |
| 2013 | 11,680 | 12,707 |
| 2014 | 13,140 | 14,556 |
| 2015 | 12,770 | 14,090 |
| 2016 | 12,070 | 13,214 |
| 2017 | 10,380 | 11,124 |
| 2018 | 11,410 | 12,442 |
| 2019 | 11,740 | 12,976 |
| 2020 | 12,020 | 13,236 |
| 2021 | 9,140 | 9,619 |
| 2022 | 9,160 | 9,873 |
| 2023 | 9,670 | 10,489 |
| 2024 | 10,470 | 11,536 |
| 2025 | 8,530 | 8,910 |
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
- Senegal244 km
- The Gambia273 km
- Mali396 km
- Sierra Leone429 km
- Guinea589 km
- Liberia627 km
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What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
