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Wildfires in Barbados
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 264 km² of Barbados at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 50 km², ranking 172nd 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 2014, with 92 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 31 km². The 2021–2025 average is 35% 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 68% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 20 March 2023, with detections in 12 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 264 km² with at least one detection, 42% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 95 | 36% |
| 2 years | 59 | 22% |
| 3 to 5 years | 87 | 33% |
| 6 to 10 years | 22 | 8.2% |
| 11 years or more | 1.2 | 0.5% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 13.25, -59.75 and holds 75% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 37 | 36 |
| 2013 | 82 | 89 |
| 2014 | 92 | 94 |
| 2015 | 41 | 45 |
| 2016 | 43 | 42 |
| 2017 | 40 | 41 |
| 2018 | 76 | 73 |
| 2019 | 46 | 49 |
| 2020 | 57 | 59 |
| 2021 | 34 | 30 |
| 2022 | 33 | 42 |
| 2023 | 60 | 68 |
| 2024 | 34 | 37 |
| 2025 | 31 | 43 |
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
- Saint Lucia121 km
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines162 km
- Dominica274 km
- Trinidad and Tobago371 km
- Antigua and Barbuda493 km
- Saint Kitts and Nevis548 km
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What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
