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Wildfires in Cuba
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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- Santiago de Cuba1 fire
- Villa Clarano fires now
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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 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 67,040 km² of Cuba at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 16,030 km², ranking 61st of 200 countries.
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 2025, with 24,440 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 9,290 km². The 2021–2025 average is 37% 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 70% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 12 April 2020, with detections in 1,160 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 67,040 km² with at least one detection, 52% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 18,720 | 28% |
| 2 years | 13,290 | 20% |
| 3 to 5 years | 23,130 | 34% |
| 6 to 10 years | 10,980 | 16% |
| 11 years or more | 921 | 1.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 21.25, -78.25 and holds 6.2% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 13,810 | 16,138 |
| 2013 | 15,500 | 18,734 |
| 2014 | 12,110 | 14,723 |
| 2015 | 17,990 | 22,271 |
| 2016 | 10,930 | 13,616 |
| 2017 | 16,460 | 20,240 |
| 2018 | 9,290 | 11,410 |
| 2019 | 11,110 | 13,008 |
| 2020 | 20,770 | 26,195 |
| 2021 | 16,990 | 20,855 |
| 2022 | 12,580 | 14,659 |
| 2023 | 23,830 | 30,018 |
| 2024 | 18,580 | 21,910 |
| 2025 | 24,440 | 30,557 |
Nearby countries
- Mexico139,170 km² in an average year
- United States133,530 km² in an average year
- Canada57,580 km² in an average year
- Honduras25,150 km² in an average year
- Nicaragua20,510 km² in an average year
- Guatemala19,060 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 countries
- Jamaica403 km
- Bahamas565 km
- Turks and Caicos Islands623 km
- Haiti664 km
- Dominican Republic804 km
- Nicaragua1,048 km
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What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
