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Wildfires in Arauca
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 13,590 km² of Arauca at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,620 km², ranking 10th of 33 regions of Colombia.
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 2020, with 3,590 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 1,710 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.
January, February and March together hold 65% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 17 March 2020, with detections in 139 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 13,590 km² with at least one detection, 43% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 4,760 | 35% |
| 2 years | 2,950 | 22% |
| 3 to 5 years | 4,610 | 34% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1,260 | 9.3% |
| 11 years or more | 6.2 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 6.25, -69.75 and holds 24% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,710 | 1,585 |
| 2013 | 2,720 | 2,639 |
| 2014 | 2,700 | 2,646 |
| 2015 | 2,140 | 1,963 |
| 2016 | 2,970 | 2,904 |
| 2017 | 2,200 | 2,020 |
| 2018 | 3,210 | 3,136 |
| 2019 | 2,800 | 2,965 |
| 2020 | 3,590 | 3,846 |
| 2021 | 1,840 | 1,673 |
| 2022 | 2,710 | 2,503 |
| 2023 | 2,380 | 2,244 |
| 2024 | 2,950 | 2,871 |
| 2025 | 2,710 | 2,595 |
Other regions of Colombia
- Vichada14,360 km² in an average year
- Meta11,860 km² in an average year
- Bolívar4,810 km² in an average year
- Caquetá4,570 km² in an average year
- Casanare4,550 km² in an average year
- Antioquia3,970 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 regions
- Casanare78 km
- Vichada248 km
- Barinas, Venezuela277 km
- Merida, Venezuela277 km
- Apure, Venezuela297 km
- Tachira, Venezuela322 km