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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 157,360 km² of Uganda at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 59,120 km², ranking 35th of 200 countries.

59,120 km²detected in an average year
2016busiest year, 76,640 km²
2022quietest year, 44,080 km²
Januarypeak month, 33% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 62,880 km2'122013: 70,760 km2'132014: 62,430 km2'142015: 74,170 km2'152016: 76,640 km2'162017: 63,080 km2'172018: 62,230 km2'182019: 46,730 km2'192020: 51,090 km2'202021: 56,500 km2'212022: 44,080 km2'222023: 52,990 km2'232024: 45,170 km2'242025: 58,890 km2'2576,640 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2016, with 76,640 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 44,080 km². The 2021–2025 average is 26% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 33%JFebruary: 26%FMarch: 7.9%MApril: 0.8%AMay: 0.5%MJune: 1.4%JJuly: 3.4%JAugust: 2.2%ASeptember: 1.5%SOctober: 2.2%ONovember: 5.4%NDecember: 16%D33%

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 75% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 31 January 2012, with detections in 3,398 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 157,360 km² with at least one detection, 70% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year27,46017%
2 years19,58012%
3 to 5 years41,90027%
6 to 10 years53,49034%
11 years or more14,9409.5%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 2.75, 31.75 and holds 4.9% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
201262,88071,065
201370,76088,892
201462,43072,990
201574,17091,507
201676,640105,607
201763,08076,596
201862,23074,908
201946,73052,021
202051,09063,923
202156,50068,972
202244,08048,670
202352,99064,842
202445,17052,797
202558,89073,430

Nearby countries

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

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What sits behind each of these fires

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What is actually burning
What is actually burningThe ESA WorldCover class under every detection, read at 10 m. Forest, cropland, shrub or built-up, named rather than guessed.
Has this ground burned before
Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.
Alerts that stay quiet
Alerts that stay quietA fire must miss two passes before we say it stopped and grow by more than half again before we say it spread. Nothing is said twice.