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Wildfires in Tunisia
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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- Silianano fires now
- Sousse1 fire
- Tataouine1 fire
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- Zaghouanno fires now
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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 8,240 km² of Tunisia at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 900 km², ranking 118th 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 2014, with 1,350 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 514 km². The 2021–2025 average is 19% 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 42% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 31 July 2017, with detections in 101 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 8,240 km² with at least one detection, 11% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 5,850 | 71% |
| 2 years | 1,510 | 18% |
| 3 to 5 years | 754 | 9.2% |
| 6 to 10 years | 77 | 0.9% |
| 11 years or more | 45 | 0.5% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 31.75, 9.25 and holds 13% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,310 | 4,738 |
| 2013 | 840 | 3,855 |
| 2014 | 1,350 | 4,355 |
| 2015 | 777 | 3,173 |
| 2016 | 722 | 2,325 |
| 2017 | 1,130 | 2,839 |
| 2018 | 563 | 2,557 |
| 2019 | 870 | 2,381 |
| 2020 | 969 | 2,469 |
| 2021 | 1,070 | 2,989 |
| 2022 | 931 | 3,005 |
| 2023 | 580 | 2,258 |
| 2024 | 514 | 1,987 |
| 2025 | 964 | 2,050 |
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.
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What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
