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Wildfires in Tarapacá
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 1,080 km² of Tarapacá at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 116 km², ranking 13th 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 2023, with 203 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 65 km². The 2021–2025 average is 108% higher 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 40% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 October 2023, with detections in 33 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,080 km² with at least one detection, 10% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 840 | 78% |
| 2 years | 132 | 12% |
| 3 to 5 years | 82 | 7.5% |
| 6 to 10 years | 24 | 2.3% |
| 11 years or more | 3.5 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -20.25, -70.25 and holds 19% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 65 | 81 |
| 2013 | 71 | 88 |
| 2014 | 97 | 114 |
| 2015 | 73 | 84 |
| 2016 | 87 | 93 |
| 2017 | 91 | 91 |
| 2018 | 98 | 101 |
| 2019 | 85 | 95 |
| 2020 | 136 | 145 |
| 2021 | 185 | 207 |
| 2022 | 170 | 199 |
| 2023 | 203 | 260 |
| 2024 | 131 | 177 |
| 2025 | 128 | 151 |
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
- Región Metropolitana de Santiago445 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
- Oruro, Bolivia348 km
- Moquegua, Peru349 km
- Antofagasta389 km
- Arequipa, Peru524 km
- Potosí, Bolivia525 km
- La Paz, Bolivia592 km