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Wildfires in Guatemala

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 2026-09-21

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 72,150 km² of Guatemala at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 19,060 km², ranking 58th of 200 countries.

19,060 km²detected in an average year
2013busiest year, 27,860 km²
2025quietest year, 12,050 km²
Aprilpeak month, 36% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 21,220 km2'122013: 27,860 km2'132014: 17,290 km2'142015: 22,440 km2'152016: 22,950 km2'162017: 19,990 km2'172018: 17,380 km2'182019: 20,690 km2'192020: 18,650 km2'202021: 13,780 km2'212022: 14,230 km2'222023: 18,110 km2'232024: 20,230 km2'242025: 12,050 km2'2527,860 km2

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

The busiest year was 2013, with 27,860 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 12,050 km². The 2021–2025 average is 30% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 4.5%JFebruary: 6.5%FMarch: 14%MApril: 36%AMay: 26%MJune: 3.0%JJuly: 1.1%JAugust: 1.3%ASeptember: 1.1%SOctober: 1.5%ONovember: 2.3%NDecember: 3.4%D36%

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

March, April and May together hold 75% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 8 May 2013, with detections in 1,319 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 72,150 km² with at least one detection, 59% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year16,96024%
2 years12,95018%
3 to 5 years26,09036%
6 to 10 years14,93021%
11 years or more1,2001.7%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 14.25, -90.75 and holds 7.1% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
201221,22026,679
201327,86036,639
201417,29020,311
201522,44027,194
201622,95029,446
201719,99024,384
201817,38020,357
201920,69026,638
202018,65023,902
202113,78016,996
202214,23016,942
202318,11023,865
202420,23028,468
202512,05014,919

Nearby countries

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 countries

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What is actually burning
What is actually burningThe ESA WorldCover class under every detection, read at 10 m. Forest, cropland, shrub or built-up, named rather than guessed.
Has this ground burned before
Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.
Alerts that stay quiet
Alerts that stay quietA fire must miss two passes before we say it stopped and grow by more than half again before we say it spread. Nothing is said twice.