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Wildfires in Santiago de Cuba
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 12:28 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 3,920 km² of Santiago de Cuba at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 836 km², ranking 11th 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 2015, with 1,370 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 323 km². The 2021–2025 average is 8.8% 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 78% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 9 March 2015, with detections in 93 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,920 km² with at least one detection, 46% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,300 | 33% |
| 2 years | 837 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,250 | 32% |
| 6 to 10 years | 510 | 13% |
| 11 years or more | 29 | 0.7% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 20.25, -75.75 and holds 60% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 823 | 863 |
| 2013 | 1,100 | 1,278 |
| 2014 | 467 | 473 |
| 2015 | 1,370 | 1,659 |
| 2016 | 458 | 465 |
| 2017 | 1,110 | 1,321 |
| 2018 | 323 | 313 |
| 2019 | 524 | 511 |
| 2020 | 936 | 1,030 |
| 2021 | 833 | 897 |
| 2022 | 487 | 498 |
| 2023 | 1,220 | 1,443 |
| 2024 | 998 | 1,050 |
| 2025 | 1,050 | 1,124 |
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
- Guantánamo52 km
- Holguín76 km
- Granma104 km
- Las Tunas215 km
- Grand'Anse, Haiti272 km
- Camagüey282 km