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Wildfires in Hodh El Gharbi
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 12:28 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 1,240 km² of Hodh El Gharbi at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 94 km², ranking 5th 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 2016, with 327 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 6.0 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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 8 November 2015, with detections in 36 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,240 km² with at least one detection, 0.7% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,170 | 94% |
| 2 years | 62 | 5.0% |
| 3 to 5 years | 8.4 | 0.7% |
| 6 to 10 years | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 15.75, -9.75 and holds 20% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 32 | 27 |
| 2013 | 42 | 35 |
| 2014 | 76 | 64 |
| 2015 | 107 | 90 |
| 2016 | 327 | 274 |
| 2017 | 72 | 60 |
| 2018 | 6.0 | 5 |
| 2019 | 7.2 | 6 |
| 2020 | 54 | 46 |
| 2021 | 74 | 62 |
| 2022 | 46 | 39 |
| 2023 | 112 | 94 |
| 2024 | 153 | 133 |
| 2025 | 210 | 177 |
Other regions of Mauritania
- Hodh Ech Chargui483 km² in an average year
- Trarza298 km² in an average year
- Guidimaka201 km² in an average year
- Assaba196 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
- Assaba170 km
- Guidimaka290 km
- Kayes, Mali350 km
- Hodh Ech Chargui378 km
- Matam, Senegal391 km
- Bamako, Mali397 km