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Wildfires in Caquetá
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 07:28 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 22,650 km² of Caquetá at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 4,570 km², ranking 4th 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 2022, with 7,030 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 2,360 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 86% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 February 2022, with detections in 696 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 22,650 km² with at least one detection, 45% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 7,600 | 34% |
| 2 years | 4,770 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 7,760 | 34% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2,480 | 11% |
| 11 years or more | 24 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 1.25, -74.25 and holds 17% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4,030 | 3,902 |
| 2013 | 4,130 | 4,139 |
| 2014 | 4,680 | 4,624 |
| 2015 | 3,870 | 3,754 |
| 2016 | 5,260 | 6,189 |
| 2017 | 4,830 | 4,833 |
| 2018 | 6,420 | 7,341 |
| 2019 | 3,470 | 3,383 |
| 2020 | 5,620 | 5,844 |
| 2021 | 3,810 | 3,787 |
| 2022 | 7,030 | 9,599 |
| 2023 | 2,360 | 2,448 |
| 2024 | 4,550 | 4,565 |
| 2025 | 3,930 | 4,044 |
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
- Casanare4,550 km² in an average year
- Antioquia3,970 km² in an average year
- Cesar3,680 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.