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Wildfires in Chile
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
- Antofagasta15 fires
- Arica y Parinacota2 fires
- Atacama2 fires
- Aysén1 fire
- Biobíono fires now
- Coquimbono fires now
- La Araucaníano fires now
- Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins1 fire
- Los Lagosno fires now
- Los Ríosno fires now
- Magellan and the Chilean Antarcticno fires now
- Maule2 fires
- Región Metropolitana de Santiago2 fires
- Tarapacá2 fires
- Valparaíso1 fire
- Ñuble1 fire
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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 66,070 km² of Chile at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 9,190 km², ranking 68th 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 13,760 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 7,300 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.
February, March and April together hold 45% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 4 February 2023, with detections in 2,124 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 66,070 km² with at least one detection, 22% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 37,930 | 57% |
| 2 years | 13,710 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 11,470 | 17% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2,830 | 4.3% |
| 11 years or more | 142 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -38.25, -72.25 and holds 5.2% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7,810 | 13,486 |
| 2013 | 9,200 | 15,067 |
| 2014 | 8,480 | 14,043 |
| 2015 | 10,620 | 18,567 |
| 2016 | 8,620 | 14,476 |
| 2017 | 13,760 | 22,291 |
| 2018 | 8,360 | 13,959 |
| 2019 | 8,210 | 14,206 |
| 2020 | 8,410 | 15,164 |
| 2021 | 7,800 | 14,330 |
| 2022 | 9,170 | 15,691 |
| 2023 | 12,530 | 22,596 |
| 2024 | 7,300 | 12,384 |
| 2025 | 8,330 | 14,115 |
Nearby countries
- Brazil613,680 km² in an average year
- Venezuela125,480 km² in an average year
- Bolivia90,610 km² in an average year
- Argentina83,750 km² in an average year
- Colombia72,700 km² in an average year
- Paraguay52,970 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
- Argentina1,215 km
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
