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Wildfires in Nariño
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 2,790 km² of Nariño at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 279 km², ranking 27th 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 753 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 108 km². The 2021–2025 average is 50% 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 70% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 September 2012, with detections in 64 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,790 km² with at least one detection, 8.2% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,990 | 71% |
| 2 years | 581 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 224 | 8.0% |
| 6 to 10 years | 3.7 | 0.1% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 1.25, -77.25 and holds 26% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 753 | 767 |
| 2013 | 248 | 218 |
| 2014 | 219 | 194 |
| 2015 | 548 | 512 |
| 2016 | 234 | 201 |
| 2017 | 185 | 156 |
| 2018 | 202 | 171 |
| 2019 | 250 | 219 |
| 2020 | 264 | 226 |
| 2021 | 108 | 90 |
| 2022 | 144 | 118 |
| 2023 | 300 | 263 |
| 2024 | 312 | 282 |
| 2025 | 140 | 123 |
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
- Carchi, Ecuador124 km
- Imbabura, Ecuador157 km
- Putumayo175 km
- Cauca175 km
- Sucumbíos, Ecuador175 km
- Orellana, Ecuador175 km