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Fire in Fezile Dabi
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 1,380 fire detections seen from space; 120 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2018, 1,840.
Two readings from space. Fire detections are hot spots a VIIRS satellite saw as it passed, each about 375 m across, counted where they fall in the place: a big fire gives many, a short one between passes none. Burnt area is the ground that looks burnt afterwards, from Sentinel-3 at 300 m, in hectares. Neither is a fire report from the ground.
The last twelve months
- 1,380Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 120 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 41 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 39 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 62 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 57 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 45 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 7 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 13 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 73 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 214 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 331 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 214 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 284 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 61 ha burnt (0.003% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 59 ha burnt (0.003% of the place) |
| June 2026 | not out yet |
| July 2026 | not out yet |
| August 2026 | not out yet |
| September 2026 | not out yet |
| October 2026 | not out yet |
| Month | Detections | Nominal or high confidence | NOAA-20 (second reading) | Burnt | Share of the place | Land seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 284 | 256 | 312 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 214 | 209 | 254 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 331 | 326 | 376 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 214 | 203 | 228 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 73 | 71 | 77 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 59 ha | 0.003% | 99% |
| April 2026 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| March 2026 | 45 | 45 | 9 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| February 2026 | 57 | 49 | 25 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| January 2026 | 62 | 56 | 71 | 61 ha | 0.003% | 99% |
| December 2025 | 39 | 38 | 41 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| November 2025 | 41 | 36 | 15 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
NOAA-20 carries the same instrument as S-NPP and passes about 50 minutes apart, so its count is a second reading of the same fires, not extra fires. “Land seen” is the share of the place’s land the burnt-area product saw often enough that month to tell.
The worst years
- 20181,840 fire detections, most in September 2018
- 20231,741 fire detections, most in September 2023; 39,859 ha burnt
- 20141,584 fire detections, most in September 2014
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2023, 39,859 ha (1.9% of the place); 2021, 22,881 ha (1.1% of the place); 2020, 19,451 ha (0.94% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 1,300 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 782 | 5,962 ha | 0.29% |
| 2024 | 1,032 | 16,383 ha | 0.79% |
| 2023 | 1,741 | 39,859 ha | 1.9% |
| 2022 | 1,024 | 11,571 ha | 0.56% |
| 2021 | 1,492 | 22,881 ha | 1.1% |
| 2020 | 1,083 | 19,451 ha | 0.94% |
| 2019 | 792 | 9,339 ha | 0.45% |
| 2018 | 1,840 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 1,271 | · | · |
| 2016 | 655 | · | · |
| 2015 | 912 | · | · |
| 2014 | 1,584 | · | · |
| 2013 | 1,058 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 1,057 | · | · |
Detections from February 2012 (S-NPP); burnt area from July 2018, so whole years of it from 2019. A larger place’s figures are the sums of its 2026 wards.
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Source
Seen from space by American and European satellites: not fires reported on the ground.
How we worked this out
What we changed: we counted FIRMS’s detections (presumed vegetation fires only) by the 2026 ward their position falls in, and summed CLMS’s burned fraction times each pixel’s area over each ward; municipalities, districts and provinces are the sums of their wards.
Fire detections: we acknowledge the use of data and/or imagery from NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), part of NASA’s LANCE (VIIRS 375 m, S-NPP and NOAA-20). Burnt area: generated using European Union’s Copernicus Land Monitoring Service information (Burnt Area 300 m version 4, DOI 10.2909/8fa58061-28ab-49bb-9b77-c26b50733e34), modified; this does not mean the European Union endorses us.
Dataset: burnt area and fire, release of 12 November 2026.