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Wildfires in Niger
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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- Diffa5 fires
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- Niameyno fires now
- Tahoua2 fires
- Tillabéri2 fires
- Zinder1 fire
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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 39,200 km² of Niger at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 5,140 km², ranking 78th 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 11,330 km² detected; the quietest was 2015, with 2,830 km². The 2021–2025 average is 119% 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 57% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 11 November 2024, with detections in 264 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 39,200 km² with at least one detection, 16% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 27,030 | 69% |
| 2 years | 5,730 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 3,950 | 10% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2,360 | 6.0% |
| 11 years or more | 120 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 12.25, 2.25 and holds 16% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 3,550 | 4,083 |
| 2013 | 3,550 | 4,103 |
| 2014 | 3,100 | 3,396 |
| 2015 | 2,830 | 2,816 |
| 2016 | 3,940 | 4,091 |
| 2017 | 3,550 | 3,693 |
| 2018 | 4,860 | 4,885 |
| 2019 | 4,560 | 4,904 |
| 2020 | 4,910 | 4,824 |
| 2021 | 7,320 | 7,153 |
| 2022 | 6,260 | 5,839 |
| 2023 | 5,310 | 5,145 |
| 2024 | 6,970 | 6,288 |
| 2025 | 11,330 | 10,470 |
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
- Burkina Faso122 km
- Benin175 km
- Togo422 km
- Nigeria517 km
- Ghana598 km
- Côte d'Ivoire735 km
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
