Wildfires in Madagascar
Situation over the last 30 days
6307 fires detected in Madagascar over the last 30 days, totalling 2,768,732 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from October 22 at 07:17 PM.
The savannas in Madagascar burn every dry season, over huge areas but with fast, low-intensity grass fires, largely lit for farming and grazing. Detections are numerous; destructive forest fires are rare.
- Boeny (MG)from September 23 at 12:15 PM to October 22 at 07:15 PM74,843 ha
- Betsiboka (MG)from September 22 at 11:44 PM to October 22 at 02:38 PM73,672 ha
- Menabe (MG)from September 22 at 11:44 PM to October 22 at 02:36 PM63,340 ha
- Tamatave (MG)from September 23 at 12:20 AM to October 22 at 02:38 PM52,536 ha
- Boeny (MG)from September 22 at 11:44 PM to October 22 at 02:38 PM43,946 ha
- Sofia (MG)from September 22 at 11:44 PM to October 22 at 02:38 PM42,706 ha
- Betsiboka (MG)from September 23 at 12:20 AM to October 22 at 01:13 PM33,043 ha
- Melaky (MG)from September 23 at 12:15 PM to October 22 at 02:38 PM32,904 ha
- Sofia (MG)from September 22 at 11:44 PM to October 22 at 02:38 PM30,847 ha
- Sofia (MG)from September 23 at 11:32 AM to October 22 at 07:15 PM29,928 ha
- Sofia (MG)from September 22 at 11:44 PM to October 22 at 07:15 PM27,869 ha
- Tamatave (MG)from September 23 at 11:32 AM to October 22 at 07:15 PM27,240 ha
- Tamatave (MG)from September 24 at 11:56 AM to October 22 at 12:28 PM26,321 ha
- Melaky (MG)from September 23 at 12:51 PM to October 22 at 01:13 PM24,538 ha
- Diana (MG)from September 22 at 11:42 PM to October 22 at 07:17 PM22,195 ha
- Tamatave (MG)from October 19 at 11:32 AM to October 22 at 07:13 PM21,107 ha
- Boeny (MG)from September 23 at 01:13 PM to October 22 at 02:38 PM20,801 ha
- Haute Matsiatra (MG)from October 5 at 12:26 PM to October 22 at 02:36 PM20,385 ha
- Sava (MG)from September 22 at 11:44 PM to October 22 at 02:38 PM19,085 ha
- Sofia (MG)from September 22 at 11:44 PM to October 22 at 02:38 PM17,992 ha
- Boeny (MG)from September 23 at 12:51 PM to October 22 at 01:13 PM17,609 ha
- Antananarivo (MG)from September 22 at 11:44 PM to October 22 at 01:13 PM17,159 ha
- Ihorombe (MG)from September 23 at 12:13 PM to October 22 at 01:10 PM16,740 ha
- Tamatave (MG)from October 19 at 11:34 AM to October 22 at 02:36 PM16,694 ha
- Boeny (MG)from September 23 at 12:51 PM to October 22 at 01:13 PM16,341 ha
- Sofia (MG)from September 22 at 11:44 PM to October 22 at 02:38 PM16,167 ha
- Antananarivo (MG)from September 24 at 11:56 AM to October 22 at 07:13 PM15,185 ha
- Diana (MG)from September 23 at 12:20 AM to October 22 at 12:30 PM13,723 ha
- Sofia (MG)from September 22 at 11:44 PM to October 22 at 12:40 AM13,555 ha
- Melaky (MG)from September 23 at 12:15 PM to October 22 at 01:13 PM13,093 ha
- Ihorombe (MG)from October 5 at 11:49 AM to October 22 at 02:36 PM13,091 ha
- Atsimo-Andrefana (MG)from September 23 at 12:13 PM to October 22 at 01:49 PM13,063 ha
- Atsimo-Andrefana (MG)from September 23 at 12:22 AM to October 22 at 01:49 PM12,790 ha
- Menabe (MG)from October 5 at 11:49 AM to October 22 at 02:36 PM11,838 ha
- Melaky (MG)from September 23 at 12:51 PM to October 22 at 02:38 PM11,299 ha
- Tamatave (MG)from September 23 at 12:51 PM to October 22 at 07:15 PM11,293 ha
- Diana (MG)from September 23 at 12:20 AM to October 21 at 12:47 PM11,259 ha
- Sofia (MG)from September 25 at 12:34 PM to October 22 at 07:15 PM10,815 ha
- Tamatave (MG)from September 23 at 12:15 PM to October 22 at 01:13 PM10,357 ha
- Melaky (MG)from September 23 at 12:22 AM to October 22 at 01:47 PM9,830 ha
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These figures come from satellite thermal detection and are not an official tally: only the emergency services of the country concerned are authoritative. The detected footprint overstates the area actually burnt, a pixel counting whole (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) when only an edge burns. A freshly detected fire may not yet carry a place name and will then not appear in this list, though it is already on the map.
Learn more: what a forest fire is and how satellites detect it
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