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Wildfires in Western Bahr el Ghazal
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 13:28 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 87,210 km² of Western Bahr el Ghazal at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 56,430 km², ranking 1st of 10 regions of South Sudan.
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 63,090 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 50,250 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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.
November, December and January together hold 85% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 18 December 2019, with detections in 2,372 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 87,210 km² with at least one detection, 99% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 148 | 0.2% |
| 2 years | 341 | 0.4% |
| 3 to 5 years | 5,130 | 5.9% |
| 6 to 10 years | 58,230 | 67% |
| 11 years or more | 23,370 | 27% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 7.25, 28.25 and holds 4.3% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 50,910 | 56,440 |
| 2013 | 57,250 | 69,127 |
| 2014 | 57,730 | 68,770 |
| 2015 | 54,590 | 64,987 |
| 2016 | 63,090 | 81,850 |
| 2017 | 55,040 | 63,427 |
| 2018 | 57,170 | 68,357 |
| 2019 | 54,000 | 60,250 |
| 2020 | 57,320 | 68,208 |
| 2021 | 56,970 | 67,578 |
| 2022 | 55,400 | 64,056 |
| 2023 | 50,250 | 57,476 |
| 2024 | 60,920 | 76,282 |
| 2025 | 59,310 | 72,899 |
Other regions of South Sudan
- Western Equatoria55,660 km² in an average year
- Jonglei49,900 km² in an average year
- Upper Nile35,650 km² in an average year
- Central Equatoria29,410 km² in an average year
- Lakes21,590 km² in an average year
- Eastern Equatoria20,390 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
- Lakes123 km
- Warrap175 km
- Northern Bahr el Ghazal199 km
- Unity234 km
- Western Equatoria283 km
- East Darfur, Sudan323 km