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Wildfires in Río Negro
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 16,390 km² of Río Negro at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,640 km², ranking 14th of 24 regions of Argentina.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2016, with 4,510 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 622 km². The 2021–2025 average is 37% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
December, January and February together hold 51% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 23 December 2016, with detections in 1,096 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 16,390 km² with at least one detection, 8.9% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 12,790 | 78% |
| 2 years | 2,140 | 13% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,270 | 7.7% |
| 6 to 10 years | 182 | 1.1% |
| 11 years or more | 16 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -39.25, -65.75 and holds 8.3% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 622 | 901 |
| 2013 | 870 | 1,151 |
| 2014 | 746 | 921 |
| 2015 | 2,150 | 2,691 |
| 2016 | 4,510 | 5,346 |
| 2017 | 3,310 | 3,981 |
| 2018 | 1,570 | 1,957 |
| 2019 | 1,950 | 2,431 |
| 2020 | 1,630 | 2,068 |
| 2021 | 1,310 | 1,897 |
| 2022 | 1,050 | 1,374 |
| 2023 | 1,370 | 1,750 |
| 2024 | 807 | 1,024 |
| 2025 | 1,120 | 2,043 |
Other regions of Argentina
- Santa Fe14,200 km² in an average year
- Formosa11,650 km² in an average year
- Corrientes10,870 km² in an average year
- Chaco8,420 km² in an average year
- Santiago del Estero7,400 km² in an average year
- Salta4,340 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- La Pampa181 km
- Neuquén282 km
- La Araucanía, Chile574 km
- Biobío, Chile589 km
- Ñuble, Chile594 km
- Chubut605 km