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Wildfires in Zinder
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 6,550 km² of Zinder at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 535 km², ranking 3rd 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 1,920 km² detected; the quietest was 2017, with 223 km². The 2021–2025 average is 100% 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 61% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 7 November 2024, with detections in 119 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 6,550 km² with at least one detection, 1.9% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 5,750 | 88% |
| 2 years | 680 | 10% |
| 3 to 5 years | 122 | 1.9% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1.2 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 14.75, 11.25 and holds 11% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 313 | 275 |
| 2013 | 510 | 434 |
| 2014 | 492 | 419 |
| 2015 | 312 | 267 |
| 2016 | 418 | 350 |
| 2017 | 223 | 190 |
| 2018 | 442 | 371 |
| 2019 | 410 | 345 |
| 2020 | 276 | 235 |
| 2021 | 774 | 655 |
| 2022 | 342 | 285 |
| 2023 | 347 | 291 |
| 2024 | 717 | 600 |
| 2025 | 1,920 | 1,633 |
Other regions of Niger
- Tillabéri2,190 km² in an average year
- Diffa948 km² in an average year
- Dosso510 km² in an average year
- Tahoua498 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.
Nearby regions
- Diffa242 km
- Jigawa State, Nigeria247 km
- Agadez340 km
- Lac, Chad364 km
- Kanem, Chad380 km
- Yobe State, Nigeria392 km