Forest and vegetation fires
Fires spotted every day in Morocco by satellite since 2012: the current year against past years, the fire season, the most affected provinces and the detections of the last seven days.
1,131 fire detections since 1 January 2026
Updated : 13 November 2026
2026: detections close to usual
1,131detections from 1 January to 2 November 2026
1,239average for the same period (2012–2025)
2,189highest for the same period (2022)
64detections in the last seven days
Detections in the last 7 days
Circle size by fire intensity (radiative power, MW).
Most affected provinces
annual average (2012–2025) 2026
- Chefchaouen 151 · 68
- Larache 146 · 57
- Kénitra 70 · 61
- Tétouan 56 · 18
- Al Hoceima 47 · 10
- Sidi Kacem 42 · 25
- Nador 42 · 14
- Taza 41 · 11
- Tanger-Assilah 39 · 88
- Chtouka-Aït Baha 37 · 43
The fire season: detections by month
average 2012–2025 2026
18Jan
32Feb
36Mar
49Apr
114May
126Jun
184Jul
193Aug
170Sept
194Oct
15Nov
Dec
Detections per year
1,76512
1,40513
1,04114
1,08215
1,18516
1,26917
1,30418
1,66719
1,43720
1,31121
2,34622
1,52623
86124
94925
1,13126
Current year up to 2 November.
How to read these figures
- A detection is a 375 m hot spot seen by the satellite. A large fire gives several; a small or brief fire may be missed (overpass time, clouds). It is an activity indicator, not a number of fires nor a burnt area.
- The satellite does not tell a forest fire from crop-residue burning. Fixed sources (factories, gas flares) and low-confidence detections are removed.
- Last updated: 2 November 2026. Data are refreshed daily; recent months are replaced by NASA's final archive when it is released.
Source: NASA FIRMS, VIIRS sensor on Suomi NPP (375 m), Observatory calculations.