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Wildfires in Togo
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 55,660 km² of Togo at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 28,650 km², ranking 51st 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 2013, with 34,860 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 21,910 km². The 2021–2025 average is 21% 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.
December, January and February together hold 84% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 December 2015, with detections in 1,347 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 55,660 km² with at least one detection, 92% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,960 | 3.5% |
| 2 years | 2,290 | 4.1% |
| 3 to 5 years | 11,900 | 21% |
| 6 to 10 years | 31,550 | 57% |
| 11 years or more | 7,960 | 14% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 8.75, 0.75 and holds 8.2% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 26,320 | 29,822 |
| 2013 | 34,860 | 46,453 |
| 2014 | 31,120 | 38,463 |
| 2015 | 34,080 | 45,254 |
| 2016 | 30,490 | 37,307 |
| 2017 | 31,990 | 40,401 |
| 2018 | 28,450 | 34,535 |
| 2019 | 29,180 | 35,186 |
| 2020 | 31,230 | 39,582 |
| 2021 | 25,630 | 29,752 |
| 2022 | 27,750 | 33,887 |
| 2023 | 21,910 | 24,594 |
| 2024 | 26,200 | 32,172 |
| 2025 | 21,920 | 24,036 |
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.
Nearby countries
- Ghana199 km
- Benin247 km
- Burkina Faso338 km
- Niger422 km
- Côte d'Ivoire497 km
- Nigeria694 km
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
