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Wildfires in Santa Catarina
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 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 42,860 km² of Santa Catarina at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 5,830 km², ranking 20th 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 2016, with 8,450 km² detected; the quietest was 2015, with 3,680 km². The 2021–2025 average is 18% 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.
July, August and September together hold 60% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 11 August 2020, with detections in 369 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 42,860 km² with at least one detection, 22% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 22,730 | 53% |
| 2 years | 10,530 | 25% |
| 3 to 5 years | 8,480 | 20% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1,110 | 2.6% |
| 11 years or more | 11 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -28.25, -50.25 and holds 10% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6,580 | 6,812 |
| 2013 | 6,000 | 6,151 |
| 2014 | 5,180 | 5,392 |
| 2015 | 3,680 | 3,702 |
| 2016 | 8,450 | 8,944 |
| 2017 | 6,700 | 7,174 |
| 2018 | 5,550 | 5,884 |
| 2019 | 6,660 | 7,101 |
| 2020 | 8,230 | 9,121 |
| 2021 | 6,830 | 7,433 |
| 2022 | 4,190 | 4,478 |
| 2023 | 4,240 | 4,560 |
| 2024 | 4,920 | 5,251 |
| 2025 | 4,410 | 4,674 |
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
- Bahia36,820 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
- Rio Grande do Sul121 km
- Paraná348 km
- Misiones, Argentina409 km
- Itapúa, Paraguay567 km
- Caazapá, Paraguay587 km
- Cerro Largo, Uruguay587 km