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Wildfires in of Bougainville
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 381 km² of of Bougainville at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 49 km², ranking 19th of 20 regions of Papua New Guinea.
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 2022, with 154 km² detected; the quietest was 2019, with 26 km². The 2021–2025 average is 72% 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.
August, September and October together hold 30% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 7 July 2018, with detections in 17 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 381 km² with at least one detection, 9.4% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 304 | 80% |
| 2 years | 41 | 11% |
| 3 to 5 years | 16 | 4.2% |
| 6 to 10 years | 3.7 | 1.0% |
| 11 years or more | 16 | 4.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -6.25, 155.25 and holds 94% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 43 | 422 |
| 2013 | 38 | 413 |
| 2014 | 33 | 293 |
| 2015 | 54 | 296 |
| 2016 | 33 | 313 |
| 2017 | 31 | 284 |
| 2018 | 46 | 361 |
| 2019 | 26 | 126 |
| 2020 | 33 | 186 |
| 2021 | 57 | 395 |
| 2022 | 154 | 447 |
| 2023 | 37 | 199 |
| 2024 | 28 | 268 |
| 2025 | 71 | 389 |
Other regions of Papua New Guinea
- Western4,740 km² in an average year
- East Sepik2,660 km² in an average year
- Morobe2,640 km² in an average year
- Central2,380 km² in an average year
- Madang2,180 km² in an average year
- Eastern Highlands1,570 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
- New Ireland355 km
- East New Britain399 km
- Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands643 km
- Milne Bay719 km
- West New Britain776 km
- Oro814 km