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Wildfires in Región Metropolitana de Santiago
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 10:27 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 3,900 km² of Región Metropolitana de Santiago at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 445 km², ranking 6th of 16 regions of Chile.
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 850 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 281 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.
November, December and January together hold 54% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 25 January 2017, with detections in 119 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,900 km² with at least one detection, 13% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,670 | 68% |
| 2 years | 743 | 19% |
| 3 to 5 years | 406 | 10% |
| 6 to 10 years | 76 | 2.0% |
| 11 years or more | 6.2 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -33.25, -70.75 and holds 49% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 319 | 623 |
| 2013 | 455 | 844 |
| 2014 | 471 | 806 |
| 2015 | 374 | 651 |
| 2016 | 565 | 818 |
| 2017 | 850 | 1,491 |
| 2018 | 401 | 722 |
| 2019 | 391 | 775 |
| 2020 | 281 | 607 |
| 2021 | 293 | 685 |
| 2022 | 519 | 1,025 |
| 2023 | 424 | 884 |
| 2024 | 479 | 940 |
| 2025 | 408 | 951 |
Other regions of Chile
- La Araucanía2,380 km² in an average year
- Biobío1,440 km² in an average year
- Maule1,420 km² in an average year
- Ñuble1,260 km² in an average year
- Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins690 km² in an average year
- Valparaíso325 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
- Valparaíso55 km
- Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins120 km
- Mendoza, Argentina194 km
- Coquimbo281 km
- San Juan, Argentina287 km
- Maule292 km