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Wildfires in Gedo
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 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 1,500 km² of Gedo at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 123 km², ranking 7th of 13 regions of Somalia.
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 2012, with 651 km² detected; the quietest was 2015, with 26 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.
January, February and March together hold 59% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 1 March 2012, with detections in 34 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,500 km² with at least one detection, 2.2% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,330 | 88% |
| 2 years | 142 | 9.5% |
| 3 to 5 years | 33 | 2.2% |
| 6 to 10 years | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 2.25, 42.25 and holds 15% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 651 | 566 |
| 2013 | 115 | 101 |
| 2014 | 68 | 60 |
| 2015 | 26 | 22 |
| 2016 | 77 | 66 |
| 2017 | 53 | 44 |
| 2018 | 50 | 44 |
| 2019 | 54 | 46 |
| 2020 | 89 | 75 |
| 2021 | 63 | 55 |
| 2022 | 57 | 51 |
| 2023 | 47 | 39 |
| 2024 | 230 | 192 |
| 2025 | 140 | 129 |
Other regions of Somalia
- Lower Juba394 km² in an average year
- Middle Juba346 km² in an average year
- Lower Shebelle323 km² in an average year
- Middle Shebelle308 km² in an average year
- Bay182 km² in an average year
- Hiran132 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
- Middle Juba175 km
- Bay200 km
- Lower Juba229 km
- Lower Shebelle283 km
- Middle Shebelle392 km
- Hiran433 km