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Wildfires in Oruro
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 4,730 km² of Oruro at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 427 km², ranking 9th of 9 regions of Bolivia.
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 2020, with 756 km² detected; the quietest was 2017, with 241 km². The 2021–2025 average is 11% 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.
August, September and October together hold 49% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 June 2020, with detections in 41 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,730 km² with at least one detection, 4.7% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 3,840 | 81% |
| 2 years | 672 | 14% |
| 3 to 5 years | 204 | 4.3% |
| 6 to 10 years | 14 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 2.4 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -17.75, -68.25 and holds 10% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 336 | 297 |
| 2013 | 633 | 580 |
| 2014 | 517 | 462 |
| 2015 | 450 | 396 |
| 2016 | 370 | 330 |
| 2017 | 241 | 209 |
| 2018 | 255 | 228 |
| 2019 | 367 | 329 |
| 2020 | 756 | 662 |
| 2021 | 479 | 425 |
| 2022 | 484 | 430 |
| 2023 | 449 | 399 |
| 2024 | 283 | 255 |
| 2025 | 359 | 324 |
Other regions of Bolivia
- Santa Cruz39,610 km² in an average year
- El Beni33,690 km² in an average year
- La Paz6,540 km² in an average year
- Cochabamba4,120 km² in an average year
- Pando2,440 km² in an average year
- Chuquisaca1,830 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 Paz246 km
- Moquegua, Peru322 km
- Cochabamba337 km
- Tarapacá, Chile348 km
- Potosí386 km
- Puno, Peru403 km