30 m resolution monthly burned area products for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from 2017 to 2025 (MBA-SSA1725)

This dataset provides monthly burned area (BA) products for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) covering the period from July 2017 to July 2025. It consists of two main components: Binary BA maps (30 m): 5° × 5° tiles in binary format (0 = non-burned, 1 = burned). Provided as single-band GeoTIFF tiles for each month (multiple tiles per month). Gridded burned fraction (0.25°; added in 2026-01-09 update): Monthly burned fraction for each 0.25° × 0.25° grid cell across SSA, aggregated from the 30 m binary maps. Provided as single-band GeoTIFF files (one per month), with values ranging from 0.0 to 1.0 (unitless fraction). The article was published in the Remote Sensing of Environment. Please cite the article: Huang, S., Zhang, Z., Long, T., He, G., Wang, G., Zhang, H., & Yu, H. (2026). Developing 30 m resolution monthly burned area products in Africa (2017–2025). Remote Sensing of Environment, 344, 115533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2026.115533