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Wildfires in Cauca
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 7,290 km² of Cauca at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 915 km², ranking 18th 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 2012, with 1,650 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 483 km². The 2021–2025 average is 35% 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.
August, September and October together hold 62% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 14 September 2012, with detections in 95 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 7,290 km² with at least one detection, 19% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 3,980 | 55% |
| 2 years | 1,940 | 27% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,310 | 18% |
| 6 to 10 years | 63 | 0.9% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 2.75, -76.75 and holds 18% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,650 | 1,496 |
| 2013 | 729 | 634 |
| 2014 | 982 | 864 |
| 2015 | 1,410 | 1,265 |
| 2016 | 850 | 746 |
| 2017 | 769 | 661 |
| 2018 | 882 | 784 |
| 2019 | 1,060 | 932 |
| 2020 | 815 | 738 |
| 2021 | 558 | 485 |
| 2022 | 483 | 440 |
| 2023 | 998 | 882 |
| 2024 | 1,120 | 992 |
| 2025 | 493 | 426 |
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
- Valle del Cauca124 km
- Huila166 km
- Nariño175 km
- Tolima200 km
- Putumayo248 km
- Carchi, Ecuador277 km