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Wildfires in Jalapa

Department of Guatemala

Wildfires in Jalapa

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 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 1,470 km² of Jalapa at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 317 km², ranking 15th of 22 regions of Guatemala.

317 km²detected in an average year
2013busiest year, 517 km²
2025quietest year, 160 km²
Aprilpeak month, 52% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 275 km2'122013: 517 km2'132014: 336 km2'142015: 388 km2'152016: 254 km2'162017: 354 km2'172018: 341 km2'182019: 248 km2'192020: 421 km2'202021: 175 km2'212022: 320 km2'222023: 199 km2'232024: 452 km2'242025: 160 km2'25517 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 517 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 160 km². The 2021–2025 average is 26% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 2.1%JFebruary: 5.1%FMarch: 24%MApril: 52%AMay: 14%MJune: 0.4%JJuly: 0.9%JAugust: 1.1%ASeptember: 0.1%SOctober: 0.0%ONovember: 0.2%NDecember: 0.8%D52%

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 89% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 7 April 2020, with detections in 37 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 1,470 km² with at least one detection, 53% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year36725%
2 years32222%
3 to 5 years60841%
6 to 10 years17012%
11 years or more0.00.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 14.75, -89.75 and holds 75% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012275266
2013517598
2014336333
2015388398
2016254259
2017354385
2018341342
2019248250
2020421469
2021175164
2022320332
2023199187
2024452513
2025160149

Other regions of Guatemala

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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