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Wildfires in Bahamas
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Regions
- Cat Islandno fires now
- Central Abacono fires now
- Central Androsno fires now
- Crooked Islandno fires now
- East Grand Bahamano fires now
- Mangrove Cayno fires now
- New Providenceno fires now
- North Abacono fires now
- North Androsno fires now
- North Eleutherano fires now
- South Abacono fires now
- South Androsno fires now
- South Eleutherano fires now
- West Grand Bahamano fires now
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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 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 3,070 km² of Bahamas at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 498 km², ranking 139th of 200 countries.
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 2017, with 942 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 233 km². The 2021–2025 average is 15% 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.
March, April and May together hold 66% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 11 April 2017, with detections in 85 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,070 km² with at least one detection, 34% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,270 | 41% |
| 2 years | 763 | 25% |
| 3 to 5 years | 901 | 29% |
| 6 to 10 years | 128 | 4.2% |
| 11 years or more | 3.3 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 26.25, -77.25 and holds 17% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 407 | 591 |
| 2013 | 835 | 1,217 |
| 2014 | 345 | 447 |
| 2015 | 424 | 567 |
| 2016 | 606 | 915 |
| 2017 | 942 | 1,464 |
| 2018 | 297 | 390 |
| 2019 | 387 | 675 |
| 2020 | 504 | 738 |
| 2021 | 411 | 631 |
| 2022 | 233 | 328 |
| 2023 | 293 | 426 |
| 2024 | 484 | 774 |
| 2025 | 802 | 1,565 |
Nearby countries
- Mexico139,170 km² in an average year
- United States133,530 km² in an average year
- Canada57,580 km² in an average year
- Honduras25,150 km² in an average year
- Nicaragua20,510 km² in an average year
- Guatemala19,060 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 countries
- Cuba565 km
- Turks and Caicos Islands712 km
- Haiti931 km
- Jamaica945 km
- Dominican Republic1,082 km
- Puerto Rico1,438 km
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What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
