This country is no longer in the tracked set, so it was NOT checked for the week of 17 to 23 October. 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.