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Wildfires in Maritime
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 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 5,270 km² of Maritime at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,000 km², ranking 5th 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 2015, with 2,820 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 1,100 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 82% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 5 January 2019, with detections in 293 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 5,270 km² with at least one detection, 79% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 604 | 11% |
| 2 years | 518 | 10% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,650 | 31% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2,320 | 44% |
| 11 years or more | 183 | 3.5% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 6.75, 1.25 and holds 39% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
Show the table
| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,100 | 1,099 |
| 2013 | 2,740 | 3,618 |
| 2014 | 1,860 | 2,121 |
| 2015 | 2,820 | 3,968 |
| 2016 | 2,010 | 2,239 |
| 2017 | 1,970 | 2,251 |
| 2018 | 2,150 | 2,633 |
| 2019 | 2,040 | 2,351 |
| 2020 | 2,580 | 3,134 |
| 2021 | 1,520 | 1,608 |
| 2022 | 2,040 | 2,413 |
| 2023 | 1,640 | 1,786 |
| 2024 | 2,130 | 2,499 |
| 2025 | 1,400 | 1,503 |
Other regions of Togo
- Plateaux8,620 km² in an average year
- Centre7,780 km² in an average year
- Kara6,520 km² in an average year
- Savanes3,540 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
- Mono, Benin55 km
- Kouffo, Benin78 km
- Atlantique, Benin110 km
- Ouémé, Benin110 km
- Plateaux111 km
- Zou, Benin123 km