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Wildfires in Vatovavy-Fitovinany
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 17,890 km² of Vatovavy-Fitovinany at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 4,480 km², ranking 19th of 22 regions of Madagascar.
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 6,700 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 2,320 km². The 2021–2025 average is 25% 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.
October, November and December together hold 69% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 27 December 2014, with detections in 335 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 17,890 km² with at least one detection, 60% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 3,480 | 19% |
| 2 years | 3,650 | 20% |
| 3 to 5 years | 7,720 | 43% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2,890 | 16% |
| 11 years or more | 160 | 0.9% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -20.75, 48.25 and holds 16% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4,650 | 4,870 |
| 2013 | 4,870 | 5,381 |
| 2014 | 5,140 | 5,890 |
| 2015 | 5,400 | 6,117 |
| 2016 | 6,700 | 8,478 |
| 2017 | 4,370 | 4,842 |
| 2018 | 3,900 | 4,128 |
| 2019 | 3,620 | 3,869 |
| 2020 | 3,990 | 4,345 |
| 2021 | 4,570 | 4,943 |
| 2022 | 4,500 | 5,165 |
| 2023 | 3,870 | 4,048 |
| 2024 | 4,850 | 5,866 |
| 2025 | 2,320 | 2,404 |
Other regions of Madagascar
- Menabe24,240 km² in an average year
- Melaky22,840 km² in an average year
- Atsimo-Andrefana18,160 km² in an average year
- Sofia17,440 km² in an average year
- Betsiboka14,790 km² in an average year
- Boeny13,510 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
- Amoron'i Mania103 km
- Toamasina166 km
- Haute Matsiatra214 km
- Ihorombe271 km
- Atsimo-Atsinanana296 km
- Antananarivo348 km