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Wildfires in Cotopaxi
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 1,730 km² of Cotopaxi at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 193 km², ranking 13th 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 419 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 51 km². The 2021–2025 average is 10% 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.
September, October and November together hold 67% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 4 November 2020, with detections in 41 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,730 km² with at least one detection, 13% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,090 | 63% |
| 2 years | 409 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 228 | 13% |
| 6 to 10 years | 5.0 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -0.75, -78.75 and holds 50% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 361 | 345 |
| 2013 | 140 | 122 |
| 2014 | 92 | 80 |
| 2015 | 178 | 164 |
| 2016 | 220 | 202 |
| 2017 | 116 | 105 |
| 2018 | 242 | 218 |
| 2019 | 161 | 149 |
| 2020 | 299 | 271 |
| 2021 | 51 | 46 |
| 2022 | 100 | 88 |
| 2023 | 198 | 181 |
| 2024 | 419 | 423 |
| 2025 | 124 | 107 |
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
- Pichincha78 km
- Chimborazo111 km
- Los Ríos124 km
- Bolívar124 km
- Tungurahua124 km
- Imbabura124 km