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Wildfires in Cundinamarca
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 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 4,210 km² of Cundinamarca at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 504 km², ranking 21st 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 2015, with 799 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 293 km². The 2021–2025 average is 34% 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.
July, August and September together hold 40% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 30 August 2014, with detections in 35 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,210 km² with at least one detection, 15% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,700 | 64% |
| 2 years | 896 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 535 | 13% |
| 6 to 10 years | 67 | 1.6% |
| 11 years or more | 18 | 0.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 5.25, -73.75 and holds 38% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 705 | 721 |
| 2013 | 573 | 625 |
| 2014 | 536 | 522 |
| 2015 | 799 | 829 |
| 2016 | 547 | 599 |
| 2017 | 423 | 546 |
| 2018 | 451 | 645 |
| 2019 | 412 | 560 |
| 2020 | 534 | 802 |
| 2021 | 293 | 649 |
| 2022 | 338 | 537 |
| 2023 | 490 | 733 |
| 2024 | 588 | 926 |
| 2025 | 370 | 533 |
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.