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Wildfires in Agadez
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 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 1,490 km² of Agadez at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 119 km², ranking 7th of 8 regions of Niger.
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 636 km² detected; the quietest was 2017, with 13 km². The 2021–2025 average is 1083% 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 54% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 October 2025, with detections in 82 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,490 km² with at least one detection, 1.8% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,360 | 91% |
| 2 years | 107 | 7.1% |
| 3 to 5 years | 25 | 1.7% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2.4 | 0.2% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 15.75, 8.25 and holds 27% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 14 | 12 |
| 2013 | 34 | 29 |
| 2014 | 27 | 23 |
| 2015 | 17 | 14 |
| 2016 | 28 | 24 |
| 2017 | 13 | 11 |
| 2018 | 24 | 24 |
| 2019 | 37 | 36 |
| 2020 | 51 | 43 |
| 2021 | 166 | 153 |
| 2022 | 151 | 135 |
| 2023 | 144 | 127 |
| 2024 | 330 | 288 |
| 2025 | 636 | 538 |
Other regions of Niger
- Tillabéri2,190 km² in an average year
- Diffa948 km² in an average year
- Zinder535 km² in an average year
- Dosso510 km² in an average year
- Tahoua498 km² in an average year
- Maradi343 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
- Maradi321 km
- Zinder340 km
- Jigawa State, Nigeria397 km
- Tahoua428 km
- Katsina State, Nigeria457 km
- Zamfara State, Nigeria545 km