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Wildfires in Sangha
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 2,260 km² of Sangha at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 352 km², ranking 11th 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 2016, with 919 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 222 km². The 2021–2025 average is 10% lower 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.
January, February and March together hold 45% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 30 January 2016, with detections in 171 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,260 km² with at least one detection, 28% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,260 | 56% |
| 2 years | 368 | 16% |
| 3 to 5 years | 461 | 20% |
| 6 to 10 years | 152 | 6.8% |
| 11 years or more | 12 | 0.5% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 1.25, 16.25 and holds 57% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 222 | 444 |
| 2013 | 253 | 602 |
| 2014 | 252 | 664 |
| 2015 | 235 | 632 |
| 2016 | 919 | 1,570 |
| 2017 | 255 | 597 |
| 2018 | 268 | 673 |
| 2019 | 330 | 687 |
| 2020 | 500 | 922 |
| 2021 | 263 | 655 |
| 2022 | 338 | 609 |
| 2023 | 248 | 504 |
| 2024 | 486 | 787 |
| 2025 | 358 | 773 |
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.