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Wildfires in Morona-Santiago
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 646 km² of Morona-Santiago at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 84 km², ranking 19th 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 191 km² detected; the quietest was 2014, with 17 km². The 2021–2025 average is 177% 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.
August, September and October together hold 31% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 7 January 2022, with detections in 23 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 646 km² with at least one detection, 13% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 474 | 73% |
| 2 years | 88 | 14% |
| 3 to 5 years | 47 | 7.3% |
| 6 to 10 years | 20 | 3.1% |
| 11 years or more | 17 | 2.7% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -2.25, -78.25 and holds 71% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 66 | 222 |
| 2013 | 46 | 92 |
| 2014 | 17 | 14 |
| 2015 | 33 | 82 |
| 2016 | 82 | 157 |
| 2017 | 54 | 127 |
| 2018 | 50 | 159 |
| 2019 | 51 | 397 |
| 2020 | 105 | 704 |
| 2021 | 82 | 509 |
| 2022 | 187 | 1,257 |
| 2023 | 137 | 701 |
| 2024 | 191 | 425 |
| 2025 | 79 | 344 |
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.