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Wildfires in Rukwa
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 10:27 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 20,430 km² of Rukwa at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 9,450 km², ranking 10th 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 2013, with 11,920 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 7,120 km². The 2021–2025 average is 28% 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.
July, August and September together hold 78% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 14 August 2012, with detections in 439 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 20,430 km² with at least one detection, 81% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,010 | 10% |
| 2 years | 1,840 | 9.0% |
| 3 to 5 years | 5,010 | 25% |
| 6 to 10 years | 7,990 | 39% |
| 11 years or more | 3,570 | 17% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -7.25, 30.75 and holds 20% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 11,910 | 15,348 |
| 2013 | 11,920 | 15,183 |
| 2014 | 10,450 | 12,845 |
| 2015 | 10,870 | 13,703 |
| 2016 | 11,020 | 13,756 |
| 2017 | 9,930 | 12,379 |
| 2018 | 8,560 | 10,326 |
| 2019 | 8,970 | 10,940 |
| 2020 | 8,380 | 9,915 |
| 2021 | 8,910 | 10,798 |
| 2022 | 7,120 | 8,226 |
| 2023 | 7,790 | 9,322 |
| 2024 | 7,710 | 9,089 |
| 2025 | 8,720 | 10,647 |
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
- Katavi78 km
- Mbeya227 km
- Northern, Zambia229 km
- Tabora297 km
- Muchinga, Zambia298 km
- Kigoma333 km