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Wildfires in Rwanda
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 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 4,530 km² of Rwanda at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 742 km², ranking 128th of 200 countries.
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 1,460 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 412 km². The 2021–2025 average is 43% 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.
June, July and August together hold 74% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 15 August 2019, with detections in 72 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,530 km² with at least one detection, 30% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,310 | 51% |
| 2 years | 867 | 19% |
| 3 to 5 years | 978 | 22% |
| 6 to 10 years | 369 | 8.1% |
| 11 years or more | 7.4 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -1.75, 30.75 and holds 34% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 566 | 527 |
| 2013 | 1,250 | 1,247 |
| 2014 | 555 | 511 |
| 2015 | 1,250 | 1,257 |
| 2016 | 1,460 | 1,448 |
| 2017 | 645 | 632 |
| 2018 | 462 | 459 |
| 2019 | 627 | 612 |
| 2020 | 649 | 626 |
| 2021 | 592 | 579 |
| 2022 | 412 | 405 |
| 2023 | 648 | 647 |
| 2024 | 843 | 834 |
| 2025 | 428 | 417 |
Nearby countries
- Democratic Republic of the Congo898,730 km² in an average year
- Angola616,940 km² in an average year
- Zambia445,810 km² in an average year
- Mozambique404,050 km² in an average year
- Central African Republic340,550 km² in an average year
- South Sudan321,060 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 countries
- Burundi175 km
- Uganda512 km
- Democratic Republic of the Congo795 km
- Kenya1,112 km
- Ethiopia1,177 km
- South Sudan1,199 km
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What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
