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Wildfires in Western
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 07:28 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 129,370 km² of Western at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 77,200 km², ranking 2nd 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 2019, with 84,420 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 70,860 km². The 2021–2025 average is 6.3% 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 70% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 25 August 2014, with detections in 2,599 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 129,370 km² with at least one detection, 98% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,070 | 0.8% |
| 2 years | 1,980 | 1.5% |
| 3 to 5 years | 16,640 | 13% |
| 6 to 10 years | 80,330 | 62% |
| 11 years or more | 29,340 | 23% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -14.25, 23.75 and holds 3.0% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 82,310 | 101,054 |
| 2013 | 79,880 | 97,155 |
| 2014 | 77,310 | 91,812 |
| 2015 | 80,210 | 101,522 |
| 2016 | 80,290 | 99,798 |
| 2017 | 72,540 | 83,304 |
| 2018 | 77,260 | 93,363 |
| 2019 | 84,420 | 112,041 |
| 2020 | 71,680 | 85,003 |
| 2021 | 75,100 | 89,140 |
| 2022 | 70,860 | 83,533 |
| 2023 | 83,700 | 106,353 |
| 2024 | 74,220 | 92,051 |
| 2025 | 70,990 | 83,027 |
Other regions of Zambia
- Northwestern82,900 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
- Moxico, Angola333 km
- Zambezi, Namibia389 km
- Northwestern393 km
- Southern411 km
- Copperbelt514 km
- Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe518 km