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Wildfires in Boyacá

Department of Colombia

Wildfires in Boyacá

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 3,680 km² of Boyacá at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 419 km², ranking 26th of 33 regions of Colombia.

419 km²detected in an average year
2015busiest year, 573 km²
2025quietest year, 245 km²
Februarypeak month, 18% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 392 km2'122013: 467 km2'132014: 551 km2'142015: 573 km2'152016: 519 km2'162017: 302 km2'172018: 402 km2'182019: 482 km2'192020: 476 km2'202021: 256 km2'212022: 303 km2'222023: 344 km2'232024: 547 km2'242025: 245 km2'25573 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2015, with 573 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 245 km². The 2021–2025 average is 32% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 16%JFebruary: 18%FMarch: 13%MApril: 5.3%AMay: 4.0%MJune: 4.2%JJuly: 5.2%JAugust: 7.6%ASeptember: 7.8%SOctober: 5.3%ONovember: 4.6%NDecember: 10%D18%

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 46% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 February 2014, with detections in 37 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 3,680 km² with at least one detection, 13% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year2,52068%
2 years68319%
3 to 5 years43312%
6 to 10 years220.6%
11 years or more230.6%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 5.75, -72.75 and holds 30% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012392648
2013467830
2014551948
2015573914
2016519768
2017302616
2018402728
2019482824
2020476818
2021256654
2022303553
2023344735
20245471,005
2025245608

Other regions of Colombia

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.

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