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Wildfires in Bahia
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 06:20 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 264,980 km² of Bahia at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 36,820 km², ranking 6th of 27 regions of Brazil.
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 2012, with 60,220 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 23,150 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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 63% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 21 September 2021, with detections in 1,708 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 264,980 km² with at least one detection, 24% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 133,670 | 50% |
| 2 years | 67,660 | 26% |
| 3 to 5 years | 57,350 | 22% |
| 6 to 10 years | 6,090 | 2.3% |
| 11 years or more | 209 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -11.25, -45.25 and holds 1.7% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 60,220 | 69,251 |
| 2013 | 33,380 | 36,259 |
| 2014 | 31,360 | 34,480 |
| 2015 | 52,860 | 63,390 |
| 2016 | 28,100 | 31,829 |
| 2017 | 26,610 | 29,839 |
| 2018 | 23,150 | 25,206 |
| 2019 | 33,440 | 38,090 |
| 2020 | 29,640 | 33,240 |
| 2021 | 47,310 | 56,568 |
| 2022 | 35,760 | 41,452 |
| 2023 | 44,390 | 52,663 |
| 2024 | 31,290 | 34,372 |
| 2025 | 38,020 | 43,652 |
Other regions of Brazil
- Pará102,950 km² in an average year
- Maranhão74,700 km² in an average year
- Mato Grosso70,190 km² in an average year
- Tocantins52,480 km² in an average year
- Piauí37,190 km² in an average year
- Minas Gerais34,920 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.