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Wildfires in Lower Juba
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 3,450 km² of Lower Juba at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 394 km², ranking 1st 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 1,130 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 207 km². The 2021–2025 average is 52% 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.
February, March and April together hold 53% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 February 2012, with detections in 36 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,450 km² with at least one detection, 14% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,480 | 72% |
| 2 years | 471 | 14% |
| 3 to 5 years | 409 | 12% |
| 6 to 10 years | 87 | 2.5% |
| 11 years or more | 1.2 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 0.25, 42.75 and holds 34% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,130 | 997 |
| 2013 | 472 | 453 |
| 2014 | 516 | 524 |
| 2015 | 299 | 288 |
| 2016 | 509 | 488 |
| 2017 | 242 | 238 |
| 2018 | 213 | 193 |
| 2019 | 422 | 452 |
| 2020 | 317 | 328 |
| 2021 | 372 | 441 |
| 2022 | 207 | 247 |
| 2023 | 228 | 282 |
| 2024 | 233 | 246 |
| 2025 | 358 | 421 |
Other regions of Somalia
- 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
- Gedo123 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 Juba55 km
- Gedo229 km
- Lower Shebelle277 km
- North Eastern, Kenya314 km
- Bay351 km
- Coast, Kenya355 km