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Wildfires in Guinea

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 240,520 km² of Guinea at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 148,280 km², ranking 16th of 200 countries.

148,280 km²detected in an average year
2014busiest year, 160,200 km²
2025quietest year, 124,610 km²
Januarypeak month, 22% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 133,950 km2'122013: 158,880 km2'132014: 160,200 km2'142015: 150,300 km2'152016: 155,680 km2'162017: 157,270 km2'172018: 144,650 km2'182019: 154,100 km2'192020: 152,040 km2'202021: 141,100 km2'212022: 145,120 km2'222023: 146,020 km2'232024: 152,020 km2'242025: 124,610 km2'25160,200 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2014, with 160,200 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 124,610 km². The 2021–2025 average is 6.6% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 22%JFebruary: 18%FMarch: 15%MApril: 16%AMay: 6.0%MJune: 0.3%JJuly: 0.0%JAugust: 0.0%ASeptember: 0.0%SOctober: 1.0%ONovember: 6.3%NDecember: 17%D22%

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 56% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 January 2016, with detections in 4,198 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 240,520 km² with at least one detection, 97% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year3,3501.4%
2 years4,4501.9%
3 to 5 years29,12012%
6 to 10 years133,48055%
11 years or more70,13029%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 9.75, -9.25 and holds 1.9% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012133,950162,130
2013158,880214,115
2014160,200216,969
2015150,300197,457
2016155,680204,571
2017157,270212,885
2018144,650181,156
2019154,100206,387
2020152,040200,333
2021141,100176,238
2022145,120185,157
2023146,020190,348
2024152,020206,889
2025124,610148,286

Nearby countries

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

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What is actually burning
What is actually burningThe ESA WorldCover class under every detection, read at 10 m. Forest, cropland, shrub or built-up, named rather than guessed.
Has this ground burned before
Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.
Alerts that stay quiet
Alerts that stay quietA fire must miss two passes before we say it stopped and grow by more than half again before we say it spread. Nothing is said twice.