West and Central Africa Burnt Area Rasters from 2018 Onwards

West and Central Africa burnt area data is provided as monthly and annual 300-meter resolution rasters starting from 2018. The data is derived from the COPERNICUS Land Monitoring Service Burnt Area product v4, reprocessed by Action Against Hunger ACF - Regional Office for West and Central Africa. The dataset was last updated on March 26, 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping fire occurrence patterns based on monthly burnt area rasters.
• Analyzing seasonal bushfire trends based on annual burnt area statistics.
• Assessing environmental and agricultural impacts based on geospatial fire data.
• Integrating fire data with other hazard layers for risk modeling based on the provided shapefile format.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative COPERNICUS Land Monitoring Service.
• Provides consistent monthly and annual rasters from 2018 onwards.
• Offers both raster (GeoTIFF) and vector (shapefile) formats for download.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

COPERNICUS Land Monitoring Service Burnt Area product v4, reprocessed by Action Against Hunger ACF - Regional Office for West and Central Africa.

Collection Method

Satellite-derived burnt area detection, reprocessed to extract bushfire statistics.

Time Range

From 2018 onwards.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 09:05:59.975854; freshness should be verified.

Geography

West and Central Africa.