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Wildfires in Carchi

Province of Ecuador

Wildfires in Carchi

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 840 km² of Carchi at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 98 km², ranking 18th of 24 regions of Ecuador.

98 km²detected in an average year
2012busiest year, 288 km²
2021quietest year, 22 km²
Septemberpeak month, 48% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 288 km2'122013: 46 km2'132014: 48 km2'142015: 183 km2'152016: 72 km2'162017: 43 km2'172018: 62 km2'182019: 80 km2'192020: 72 km2'202021: 22 km2'212022: 31 km2'222023: 194 km2'232024: 185 km2'242025: 43 km2'25288 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2012, with 288 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 22 km². The 2021–2025 average is 25% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 4.0%JFebruary: 1.7%FMarch: 0.5%MApril: 0.6%AMay: 0.4%MJune: 3.5%JJuly: 5.8%JAugust: 21%ASeptember: 48%SOctober: 9.3%ONovember: 2.7%NDecember: 2.4%D48%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

August, September and October together hold 78% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 15 September 2012, with detections in 45 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 840 km² with at least one detection, 15% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year51061%
2 years20124%
3 to 5 years12415%
6 to 10 years4.90.6%
11 years or more0.00.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 0.75, -78.25 and holds 58% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012288308
20134638
20144840
2015183180
20167264
20174336
20186256
20198074
20207266
20212220
20223126
2023194196
2024185192
20254339

Other regions of Ecuador

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.

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