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Wildfires in Suchitepéquez

Department of Guatemala

Wildfires in Suchitepéquez

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 06:20 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 1,620 km² of Suchitepéquez at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 407 km², ranking 11th of 22 regions of Guatemala.

407 km²detected in an average year
2013busiest year, 541 km²
2025quietest year, 292 km²
Marchpeak month, 25% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 461 km2'122013: 541 km2'132014: 408 km2'142015: 497 km2'152016: 456 km2'162017: 438 km2'172018: 400 km2'182019: 370 km2'192020: 378 km2'202021: 329 km2'212022: 323 km2'222023: 376 km2'232024: 431 km2'242025: 292 km2'25541 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 541 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 292 km². The 2021–2025 average is 26% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 15%JFebruary: 21%FMarch: 25%MApril: 19%AMay: 3.0%MJune: 0.1%JJuly: 0.4%JAugust: 0.4%ASeptember: 0.1%SOctober: 0.1%ONovember: 3.9%NDecember: 12%D25%

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 65% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 1 April 2013, with detections in 26 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 1,620 km² with at least one detection, 59% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year36222%
2 years30819%
3 to 5 years65841%
6 to 10 years28117%
11 years or more140.9%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 14.25, -91.25 and holds 50% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012461500
2013541641
2014408424
2015497538
2016456468
2017438481
2018400421
2019370391
2020378385
2021329341
2022323327
2023376410
2024431484
2025292291

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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