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Wildfires in Northwestern
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 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 124,880 km² of Northwestern at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 82,900 km², ranking 1st of 10 regions of Zambia.
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 86,740 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 76,180 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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 74% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 15 August 2019, with detections in 2,910 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 124,880 km² with at least one detection, 98% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 889 | 0.7% |
| 2 years | 1,210 | 1.0% |
| 3 to 5 years | 10,100 | 8.1% |
| 6 to 10 years | 66,320 | 53% |
| 11 years or more | 46,360 | 37% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -12.25, 26.75 and holds 3.5% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 83,950 | 108,406 |
| 2013 | 85,250 | 112,125 |
| 2014 | 81,850 | 104,596 |
| 2015 | 86,740 | 115,348 |
| 2016 | 83,680 | 109,806 |
| 2017 | 83,420 | 108,633 |
| 2018 | 84,060 | 108,652 |
| 2019 | 85,230 | 113,084 |
| 2020 | 80,890 | 105,106 |
| 2021 | 80,110 | 101,834 |
| 2022 | 76,180 | 94,911 |
| 2023 | 83,590 | 110,173 |
| 2024 | 80,460 | 106,999 |
| 2025 | 85,120 | 113,726 |
Other regions of Zambia
- Western77,200 km² in an average year
- Central59,410 km² in an average year
- Muchinga59,070 km² in an average year
- Northern43,770 km² in an average year
- Luapula32,860 km² in an average year
- Southern31,690 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
- Copperbelt172 km
- Luapula244 km
- Moxico, Angola344 km
- Southern392 km
- Western393 km
- Central395 km