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Wildfires in Guantánamo
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 2,100 km² of Guantánamo at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 303 km², ranking 14th of 16 regions of Cuba.
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 492 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 148 km². The 2021–2025 average is 33% 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 63% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 20 April 2021, with detections in 45 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,100 km² with at least one detection, 26% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,080 | 52% |
| 2 years | 479 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 462 | 22% |
| 6 to 10 years | 74 | 3.5% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 20.25, -75.25 and holds 58% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 391 | 394 |
| 2013 | 298 | 276 |
| 2014 | 214 | 207 |
| 2015 | 398 | 425 |
| 2016 | 151 | 143 |
| 2017 | 220 | 224 |
| 2018 | 148 | 138 |
| 2019 | 181 | 170 |
| 2020 | 304 | 305 |
| 2021 | 422 | 487 |
| 2022 | 188 | 177 |
| 2023 | 406 | 441 |
| 2024 | 426 | 437 |
| 2025 | 492 | 522 |
Other regions of Cuba
- Camagüey2,890 km² in an average year
- Granma1,690 km² in an average year
- Matanzas1,630 km² in an average year
- Ciego de Ávila1,370 km² in an average year
- Pinar del Río1,120 km² in an average year
- Cienfuegos996 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
- Santiago de Cuba52 km
- Holguín118 km
- Granma156 km
- Grand'Anse, Haiti245 km
- Las Tunas266 km
- Camagüey331 km