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Wildfires in Kara
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 11,740 km² of Kara at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 6,520 km², ranking 3rd of 5 regions of Togo.
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 2017, with 7,460 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 4,920 km². The 2021–2025 average is 17% 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 86% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 December 2014, with detections in 383 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 11,740 km² with at least one detection, 96% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 186 | 1.6% |
| 2 years | 313 | 2.7% |
| 3 to 5 years | 2,130 | 18% |
| 6 to 10 years | 6,970 | 59% |
| 11 years or more | 2,140 | 18% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 9.25, 0.75 and holds 31% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6,130 | 6,845 |
| 2013 | 7,410 | 9,440 |
| 2014 | 7,320 | 9,014 |
| 2015 | 7,130 | 8,979 |
| 2016 | 7,060 | 8,687 |
| 2017 | 7,460 | 9,467 |
| 2018 | 5,830 | 6,687 |
| 2019 | 6,780 | 8,191 |
| 2020 | 7,110 | 8,983 |
| 2021 | 5,880 | 6,726 |
| 2022 | 6,750 | 8,388 |
| 2023 | 4,920 | 5,340 |
| 2024 | 6,480 | 8,028 |
| 2025 | 5,000 | 5,456 |
Other regions of Togo
- Plateaux8,620 km² in an average year
- Centre7,780 km² in an average year
- Savanes3,540 km² in an average year
- Maritime2,000 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
- Centre55 km
- Savanes111 km
- Northern, Ghana123 km
- Donga, Benin123 km
- Volta, Ghana124 km
- Borgou, Benin173 km