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Wildfires in Mauritania
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 13,160 km² of Mauritania at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,420 km², ranking 109th 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 2025, with 2,530 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 502 km². The 2021–2025 average is 80% higher 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 48% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 November 2025, with detections in 179 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 13,160 km² with at least one detection, 11% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 9,470 | 72% |
| 2 years | 2,180 | 17% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,310 | 10% |
| 6 to 10 years | 203 | 1.5% |
| 11 years or more | 2.4 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 16.25, -6.25 and holds 10% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,530 | 1,341 |
| 2013 | 1,750 | 1,629 |
| 2014 | 702 | 790 |
| 2015 | 548 | 556 |
| 2016 | 1,220 | 1,122 |
| 2017 | 861 | 804 |
| 2018 | 502 | 507 |
| 2019 | 1,120 | 1,102 |
| 2020 | 1,300 | 1,211 |
| 2021 | 1,940 | 1,818 |
| 2022 | 1,660 | 1,597 |
| 2023 | 2,420 | 2,291 |
| 2024 | 1,820 | 1,676 |
| 2025 | 2,530 | 2,356 |
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
- Mali621 km
- Senegal753 km
- Guinea792 km
- Côte d'Ivoire824 km
- Sierra Leone948 km
- Burkina Faso951 km
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What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
