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Wildfires in Huila
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 5,160 km² of Huila at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 616 km², ranking 19th 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 2024, with 982 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 395 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.
August, September and October together hold 45% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 28 January 2016, with detections in 39 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 5,160 km² with at least one detection, 15% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 3,260 | 63% |
| 2 years | 1,150 | 22% |
| 3 to 5 years | 645 | 12% |
| 6 to 10 years | 113 | 2.2% |
| 11 years or more | 1.2 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 2.75, -75.25 and holds 29% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 585 | 511 |
| 2013 | 582 | 522 |
| 2014 | 553 | 477 |
| 2015 | 741 | 661 |
| 2016 | 613 | 538 |
| 2017 | 526 | 468 |
| 2018 | 550 | 510 |
| 2019 | 629 | 562 |
| 2020 | 730 | 674 |
| 2021 | 395 | 350 |
| 2022 | 452 | 388 |
| 2023 | 866 | 808 |
| 2024 | 982 | 925 |
| 2025 | 415 | 365 |
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.