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Wildfires in Cartago
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 356 km² of Cartago at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 41 km², ranking 7th of 7 regions of Costa Rica.
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 2019, with 82 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 16 km². The 2021–2025 average is 12% higher 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.
February, March and April together hold 56% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 3 April 2019, with detections in 8 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 356 km² with at least one detection, 13% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 242 | 68% |
| 2 years | 68 | 19% |
| 3 to 5 years | 39 | 11% |
| 6 to 10 years | 3.6 | 1.0% |
| 11 years or more | 3.6 | 1.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 9.75, -83.75 and holds 50% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 28 | 111 |
| 2013 | 35 | 138 |
| 2014 | 52 | 119 |
| 2015 | 21 | 55 |
| 2016 | 35 | 66 |
| 2017 | 27 | 91 |
| 2018 | 44 | 89 |
| 2019 | 82 | 86 |
| 2020 | 59 | 61 |
| 2021 | 18 | 47 |
| 2022 | 39 | 52 |
| 2023 | 43 | 48 |
| 2024 | 77 | 79 |
| 2025 | 16 | 32 |
Other regions of Costa Rica
- Guanacaste1,680 km² in an average year
- Puntarenas778 km² in an average year
- Alajuela366 km² in an average year
- San José114 km² in an average year
- Limón93 km² in an average year
- Heredia57 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
- San José54 km
- Limón54 km
- Puntarenas78 km
- Alajuela156 km
- Río San Juan, Nicaragua175 km
- Chiriquí, Panama199 km