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Wildfires in Ecuador
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Regions
- Azuay1 fire
- Bolívarno fires now
- Carchino fires now
- Cañar2 fires
- Chimborazo3 fires
- Cotopaxi1 fire
- El Orono fires now
- Esmeraldasno fires now
- Galápagosno fires now
- Guayas1 fire
- Imbaburano fires now
- Loja6 fires
- Los Ríosno fires now
- Manabí2 fires
- Morona-Santiago1 fire
- Napo2 fires
- Orellana3 fires
- Pastazano fires now
- Pichinchano fires now
- Santa Elena2 fires
- Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilasno fires now
- Sucumbíos3 fires
- Tungurahua1 fire
- Zamora Chinchipeno 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 63,570 km² of Ecuador at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 11,420 km², ranking 64th 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 2024, with 17,000 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 6,350 km². The 2021–2025 average is 8.9% 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.
October, November and December together hold 66% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 11 November 2024, with detections in 1,411 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 63,570 km² with at least one detection, 33% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 29,100 | 46% |
| 2 years | 13,390 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 14,510 | 23% |
| 6 to 10 years | 6,080 | 10% |
| 11 years or more | 489 | 0.8% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -1.25, -79.75 and holds 10% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 12,650 | 13,834 |
| 2013 | 12,790 | 13,991 |
| 2014 | 9,900 | 10,724 |
| 2015 | 7,680 | 9,352 |
| 2016 | 16,820 | 19,359 |
| 2017 | 8,880 | 9,325 |
| 2018 | 12,810 | 15,628 |
| 2019 | 8,700 | 9,413 |
| 2020 | 15,150 | 17,112 |
| 2021 | 7,660 | 8,573 |
| 2022 | 13,310 | 18,183 |
| 2023 | 6,350 | 7,150 |
| 2024 | 17,000 | 20,708 |
| 2025 | 10,210 | 11,408 |
Nearby countries
- Brazil613,680 km² in an average year
- Venezuela125,480 km² in an average year
- Bolivia90,610 km² in an average year
- Argentina83,750 km² in an average year
- Colombia72,700 km² in an average year
- Paraguay52,970 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 countries
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
