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Wildfires in Hodh Ech Chargui
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 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 5,020 km² of Hodh Ech Chargui at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 483 km², ranking 1st of 13 regions of Mauritania.
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 2012, with 1,190 km² detected; the quietest was 2015, with 80 km². The 2021–2025 average is 14% 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 59% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 November 2012, with detections in 135 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 5,020 km² with at least one detection, 6.5% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 3,680 | 73% |
| 2 years | 1,020 | 20% |
| 3 to 5 years | 324 | 6.5% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2.4 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 16.25, -6.25 and holds 31% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,190 | 1,009 |
| 2013 | 1,110 | 992 |
| 2014 | 187 | 158 |
| 2015 | 80 | 67 |
| 2016 | 236 | 200 |
| 2017 | 134 | 113 |
| 2018 | 160 | 137 |
| 2019 | 655 | 559 |
| 2020 | 594 | 513 |
| 2021 | 919 | 795 |
| 2022 | 371 | 316 |
| 2023 | 449 | 383 |
| 2024 | 219 | 186 |
| 2025 | 456 | 389 |
Other regions of Mauritania
- Trarza298 km² in an average year
- Guidimaka201 km² in an average year
- Assaba196 km² in an average year
- Hodh El Gharbi94 km² in an average year
- Gorgol67 km² in an average year
- Brakna35 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
- Tombouctou, Mali120 km
- Ségou, Mali123 km
- Mopti, Mali231 km
- Hodh El Gharbi378 km
- Bamako, Mali421 km
- Sourou, Burkina Faso464 km