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Wildfires in Sonsonate
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 10:26 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 814 km² of Sonsonate at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 161 km², ranking 9th of 14 regions of El Salvador.
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 2013, with 261 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 67 km². The 2021–2025 average is 49% 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.
February, March and April together hold 72% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 9 April 2014, with detections in 25 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 814 km² with at least one detection, 44% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 272 | 33% |
| 2 years | 185 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 277 | 34% |
| 6 to 10 years | 77 | 9.5% |
| 11 years or more | 2.4 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 13.75, -89.75 and holds 96% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 141 | 155 |
| 2013 | 261 | 282 |
| 2014 | 204 | 220 |
| 2015 | 235 | 248 |
| 2016 | 198 | 200 |
| 2017 | 214 | 222 |
| 2018 | 137 | 133 |
| 2019 | 170 | 174 |
| 2020 | 166 | 173 |
| 2021 | 108 | 107 |
| 2022 | 129 | 123 |
| 2023 | 102 | 95 |
| 2024 | 122 | 118 |
| 2025 | 67 | 66 |
Other regions of El Salvador
- Santa Ana437 km² in an average year
- La Unión395 km² in an average year
- Usulután393 km² in an average year
- San Miguel340 km² in an average year
- San Vicente326 km² in an average year
- La Libertad304 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
- Ahuachapán0 km
- La Libertad54 km
- San Salvador54 km
- Cuscatlán54 km
- Jutiapa, Guatemala55 km
- Santa Ana77 km