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RegionsBurkina Faso

Gnagna

Next 7 daysExtreme90%

Peak fire period now

Annual mean
0detections
Peak period
late October – mid December
Record year
20251,662
Trend
−13%/ 10not significant · on raw data: +12%

Fire clock

Ring = year, slice = week. Tap a week to see its fires on the map.

Total detections per year: ODLAR's corrected record (on the VIIRS Suomi NPP scale) and the raw record (MODIS and VIIRS joined as they are)
YearHarmonizedRaw
200121813
2002584
200311721
20048718
20057517
200615333
2007293
2008628
20095310
2010292
2011345
20124744
20133636
20142929
20151616
20161717
20173030
20182948
20191743
20202561
20213974
2022728
2023128257
202411892466
202516623252
20266111558

Tap a week to see the detections behind it.

Lighter: less certain (mostly the MODIS years, before 2012)No observationSatellite outage

A detection is a heat signal seen from space, not burned area or a count of separate fires.

November vs a usual year

One of the highest on record

Weeks of 26 Oct – 8 Nov, compared with the same weeks of every year since 2001

ODLAR
› 988.8×
usual = 1×
This month
366
Usual (median)
0.4
Rank
1 of 26

Next 7 days

Extreme

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Extreme

Expected detections: ~25.0

  • An active part of the fire season↑
  • This year is more active than normal↑
  • Fires detected in recent days↑
Sat37°
Sun36°
Mon38°
Tue37°
Wed36°
Thu36°
Fri36°

Right now

early November

This week97

This week is more active than 100% of past years at this time

Year to date611
#2 of 26 yearsNormal: 28

What's ahead

From the next days to a year out. The further ahead, the less certain, and the chart says which part is a forecast and which is just the usual year.

Next 7 days

Extreme

~25 expected · usual 9.6

Next 3 months

Busier than usual

~309 expected · usual 118

likely 19–770 · usual 0.0–122

Season

  • Ends ~15 March
  • Peak ~30 November
ForecastLikely rangeUsualUsual rangedetections / week
How sure is this?
  • Daily fire weather: the Open-Meteo weather forecast, most reliable for the first 3 days.
  • Next 7 days: tested on 6 past years, the model ranked a week that turned busy above a quiet one 86 times in 100 (the season alone: 72).
  • Next 3 months: the real total fell inside the likely range 76 times in 100 (the usual range alone: 71).
  • Beyond 3 months: the usual year. 8 in 10 past years fell inside the grey band. Weather that far ahead is not known.

Season

early November – mid March

Onset
early November
Peak
late November
End
mid March

Critical windows

  • late October – mid December

    49% of annual activity

  • late December – late January

    23% of annual activity

The normal year vs 2026

Bands show the 25-year range; the white line is this year so far.

25-year history

The raw record jumps in 2012 when VIIRS arrives; the harmonized record does not.

Harmonized: −13%/10Raw: +12%/10
HarmonizedNaive merged record90% uncertainty

Jump test (Pettitt): the raw record jumps in 2012 to 37.5× its earlier level (p 0.003). ODLAR's record has none (p 0.15).

Unusual years

9

  • 2001

    218

    5.6× the normal annual activity

    peak 7.3× stronger than normal

  • 2003

    117

    season ended 9 weeks early

  • 2006

    153

    3.9× the normal annual activity

  • 2019

    17

    season began 10 weeks late

  • 2022

    7

    only 0.2× the normal annual activity

  • 2023

    128

    peak 7.8× stronger than normal

    season ended 21 weeks early

  • 2024

    1,189

    30× the normal annual activity

    peak 57× stronger than normal

    season ended 14 weeks early

  • 2025

    1,662

    43× the normal annual activity

    peak 55× stronger than normal

    season ended 16 weeks early

  • 2026

    611

    16× the normal annual activity

    peak 44× stronger than normal

    season ended 12 weeks early

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One fire history for the Land of Fire.

Built for the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2026.

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Data sources

NASA FIRMS, NASA POWER, Open-Meteo, OpenStreetMap, geoBoundaries, OpenFreeMap

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