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Wildfires in Tataouine
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 224 km² of Tataouine at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 48 km², ranking 6th of 23 regions of Tunisia.
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 2012, with 80 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 28 km². The 2021–2025 average is 50% 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.
May, June and July together hold 29% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 25 May 2012, with detections in 19 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 224 km² with at least one detection, 37% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 107 | 48% |
| 2 years | 35 | 16% |
| 3 to 5 years | 49 | 22% |
| 6 to 10 years | 21 | 9.4% |
| 11 years or more | 12 | 5.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 31.75, 9.25 and holds 34% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 80 | 2,554 |
| 2013 | 73 | 2,113 |
| 2014 | 71 | 1,965 |
| 2015 | 53 | 1,309 |
| 2016 | 56 | 849 |
| 2017 | 48 | 751 |
| 2018 | 40 | 1,104 |
| 2019 | 46 | 750 |
| 2020 | 36 | 633 |
| 2021 | 35 | 985 |
| 2022 | 35 | 818 |
| 2023 | 28 | 636 |
| 2024 | 33 | 759 |
| 2025 | 35 | 393 |
Other regions of Tunisia
- Bizerte157 km² in an average year
- Beja122 km² in an average year
- Jendouba95 km² in an average year
- Kasserine72 km² in an average year
- Le Kef59 km² in an average year
- Manouba45 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
- Kebili173 km
- Gabès227 km
- El Oued, Algeria260 km
- Ouargla, Algeria283 km
- Mizdah, Libya289 km
- Nuqat al Khams, Libya303 km