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Wildfires in Lékoumou
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 12:28 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 6,510 km² of Lékoumou at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,600 km², ranking 9th 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 2022, with 1,990 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 1,120 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.
July, August and September together hold 80% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 12 September 2022, with detections in 420 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 6,510 km² with at least one detection, 56% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,670 | 26% |
| 2 years | 1,200 | 18% |
| 3 to 5 years | 2,380 | 37% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1,230 | 19% |
| 11 years or more | 35 | 0.5% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -3.75, 13.25 and holds 31% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,590 | 1,465 |
| 2013 | 1,480 | 1,389 |
| 2014 | 1,590 | 1,464 |
| 2015 | 1,800 | 1,839 |
| 2016 | 1,750 | 1,674 |
| 2017 | 1,250 | 1,123 |
| 2018 | 1,850 | 1,775 |
| 2019 | 1,600 | 1,522 |
| 2020 | 1,120 | 980 |
| 2021 | 1,490 | 1,441 |
| 2022 | 1,990 | 2,052 |
| 2023 | 1,600 | 1,473 |
| 2024 | 1,550 | 1,474 |
| 2025 | 1,680 | 1,547 |
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
- Bouenza78 km
- Niari78 km
- Kouilou157 km
- Nyanga, Gabon175 km
- Cabinda, Angola200 km
- Haut-Ogooué, Gabon248 km