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Wildfires in Cuvette-Ouest
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 10:27 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 8,270 km² of Cuvette-Ouest at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,110 km², ranking 8th of 12 regions of Republic of the Congo.
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 2018, with 2,470 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 1,690 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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.
June, July and August together hold 54% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 22 August 2018, with detections in 217 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 8,270 km² with at least one detection, 62% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,720 | 21% |
| 2 years | 1,410 | 17% |
| 3 to 5 years | 3,530 | 43% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1,600 | 19% |
| 11 years or more | 16 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -0.75, 14.75 and holds 40% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2,060 | 1,883 |
| 2013 | 2,390 | 2,345 |
| 2014 | 1,900 | 1,752 |
| 2015 | 2,380 | 2,323 |
| 2016 | 1,900 | 1,791 |
| 2017 | 1,750 | 1,637 |
| 2018 | 2,470 | 2,453 |
| 2019 | 1,900 | 1,823 |
| 2020 | 2,420 | 2,415 |
| 2021 | 1,690 | 1,635 |
| 2022 | 2,060 | 2,003 |
| 2023 | 1,970 | 1,949 |
| 2024 | 2,340 | 2,371 |
| 2025 | 2,370 | 2,381 |
Other regions of Republic of the Congo
- Plateaux15,580 km² in an average year
- Pool12,470 km² in an average year
- Cuvette7,200 km² in an average year
- Bouenza4,980 km² in an average year
- Niari3,670 km² in an average year
- Brazzaville3,320 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
- Cuvette111 km
- Haut-Ogooué, Gabon124 km
- Plateaux200 km
- Ogooué-Lolo, Gabon222 km
- Sangha277 km
- Pool299 km