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Wildfires in Dar es Salaam
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 1,120 km² of Dar es Salaam at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 330 km², ranking 25th of 30 regions of Tanzania.
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 509 km² detected; the quietest was 2019, with 198 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.
August, September and October together hold 52% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 18 July 2012, with detections in 20 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,120 km² with at least one detection, 63% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 274 | 24% |
| 2 years | 144 | 13% |
| 3 to 5 years | 363 | 32% |
| 6 to 10 years | 314 | 28% |
| 11 years or more | 27 | 2.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -6.75, 39.25 and holds 68% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
Show the table
| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 509 | 716 |
| 2013 | 459 | 719 |
| 2014 | 385 | 589 |
| 2015 | 455 | 689 |
| 2016 | 429 | 669 |
| 2017 | 235 | 419 |
| 2018 | 376 | 690 |
| 2019 | 198 | 374 |
| 2020 | 292 | 441 |
| 2021 | 335 | 554 |
| 2022 | 257 | 479 |
| 2023 | 232 | 399 |
| 2024 | 210 | 303 |
| 2025 | 244 | 389 |
Other regions of Tanzania
- Ruvuma34,040 km² in an average year
- Katavi25,860 km² in an average year
- Lindi25,490 km² in an average year
- Mbeya22,410 km² in an average year
- Tabora21,810 km² in an average year
- Morogoro20,130 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
- Unguja South55 km
- Pwani124 km
- Tanga175 km
- Manyara322 km
- Kilimanjaro323 km
- Lindi333 km