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Wildfires in Tahoua
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 6,110 km² of Tahoua at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 498 km², ranking 5th 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 1,980 km² detected; the quietest was 2015, with 28 km². The 2021–2025 average is 1556% 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 66% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 11 November 2024, with detections in 247 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 6,110 km² with at least one detection, 1.3% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 5,330 | 87% |
| 2 years | 700 | 11% |
| 3 to 5 years | 81 | 1.3% |
| 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, 4.25 and holds 16% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 42 | 35 |
| 2013 | 152 | 128 |
| 2014 | 125 | 105 |
| 2015 | 28 | 23 |
| 2016 | 28 | 24 |
| 2017 | 53 | 44 |
| 2018 | 56 | 49 |
| 2019 | 72 | 61 |
| 2020 | 228 | 193 |
| 2021 | 1,300 | 1,118 |
| 2022 | 1,100 | 939 |
| 2023 | 495 | 425 |
| 2024 | 1,320 | 1,139 |
| 2025 | 1,980 | 1,758 |
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
- Maradi343 km² in an average year
- Agadez119 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.