This country is no longer in the tracked set, so it was NOT checked for the week of 2 to 8 September. The figures below are from the last week it was assessed. Its absence from our current pages is a limit of our coverage and not a finding about this country.
Ethiopia
Ethiopia's second-heaviest week for this point in the year, on this record.
The same week, all years on this record
This week, day by day
Fires centred near 6.82°, 36.72° (centre of this week's detections).
What a detection is. One satellite pixel, about 375 m across, seen radiating enough heat to be flagged as actively burning on a single overpass. A large fire front registers as many pixels at once, and a fire that keeps burning is counted again on every pass it stays hot. Detections are not burned area.
Method. NASA FIRMS, VIIRS on Suomi-NPP only so that every year is measured by the same sensor, low-confidence detections excluded, detections assigned by national boundary polygons applied identically in all years. Seven whole UTC days, refreshed once daily at 06:00 UTC, so nothing here is a partial day.