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Wildfires in Azuay
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 1,920 km² of Azuay at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 174 km², ranking 15th of 24 regions of Ecuador.
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 402 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 43 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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.
September, October and November together hold 68% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 15 November 2024, with detections in 43 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,920 km² with at least one detection, 4.0% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,500 | 78% |
| 2 years | 342 | 18% |
| 3 to 5 years | 74 | 3.9% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1.2 | 0.1% |
| 11 years or more | 1.2 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -3.25, -79.25 and holds 37% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 183 | 190 |
| 2013 | 186 | 162 |
| 2014 | 79 | 65 |
| 2015 | 121 | 114 |
| 2016 | 323 | 300 |
| 2017 | 119 | 115 |
| 2018 | 229 | 239 |
| 2019 | 69 | 70 |
| 2020 | 267 | 245 |
| 2021 | 43 | 36 |
| 2022 | 152 | 129 |
| 2023 | 162 | 138 |
| 2024 | 402 | 431 |
| 2025 | 102 | 90 |
Other regions of Ecuador
- Guayas2,670 km² in an average year
- Manabí2,450 km² in an average year
- Los Ríos1,680 km² in an average year
- Loja1,110 km² in an average year
- Esmeraldas437 km² in an average year
- El Oro344 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
- Cañar111 km
- Tumbes, Peru124 km
- El Oro124 km
- Loja157 km
- Santa Elena157 km
- Morona-Santiago157 km