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Wildfires in Atlántico
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 2,410 km² of Atlántico at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 430 km², ranking 24th 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 2014, with 614 km² detected; the quietest was 2017, with 247 km². The 2021–2025 average is 16% 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.
February, March and April together hold 74% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 29 March 2014, with detections in 32 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,410 km² with at least one detection, 37% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 829 | 34% |
| 2 years | 692 | 29% |
| 3 to 5 years | 727 | 30% |
| 6 to 10 years | 150 | 6.2% |
| 11 years or more | 8.5 | 0.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 10.75, -74.75 and holds 53% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 373 | 379 |
| 2013 | 574 | 642 |
| 2014 | 614 | 679 |
| 2015 | 482 | 519 |
| 2016 | 296 | 311 |
| 2017 | 247 | 257 |
| 2018 | 493 | 524 |
| 2019 | 515 | 586 |
| 2020 | 462 | 485 |
| 2021 | 382 | 401 |
| 2022 | 331 | 349 |
| 2023 | 457 | 508 |
| 2024 | 457 | 479 |
| 2025 | 337 | 341 |
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
- Magdalena77 km
- Cesar122 km
- Sucre123 km
- La Guajira225 km
- Bolívar229 km
- Zulia, Venezuela327 km