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Wildfires in Somaliland
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 1,610 km² of Somaliland at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 136 km², ranking 158th 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 2025, with 273 km² detected; the quietest was 2013, with 56 km². The 2021–2025 average is 100% higher 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.
July, August and September together hold 31% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 3 September 2016, with detections in 14 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,610 km² with at least one detection, 3.3% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,430 | 89% |
| 2 years | 121 | 7.5% |
| 3 to 5 years | 43 | 2.7% |
| 6 to 10 years | 7.3 | 0.5% |
| 11 years or more | 2.4 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 9.75, 44.25 and holds 11% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 61 | 51 |
| 2013 | 56 | 48 |
| 2014 | 103 | 93 |
| 2015 | 115 | 115 |
| 2016 | 149 | 147 |
| 2017 | 122 | 118 |
| 2018 | 81 | 76 |
| 2019 | 92 | 93 |
| 2020 | 154 | 162 |
| 2021 | 249 | 243 |
| 2022 | 186 | 191 |
| 2023 | 105 | 111 |
| 2024 | 155 | 147 |
| 2025 | 273 | 255 |
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.
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What sits behind each of these fires
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