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Wildfires in Haiti

Name: Fire history of Haiti, 2012-2025
Creator: Aursee
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Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC

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5fires

27 MWradiative power

6satellite detections

0with a page

Regions

Centreno fires now
Grand'Anse1 fire
L'Artibonite1 fire
Nippes1 fire
Nordno fires now
Nord-Estno fires now
Nord-Ouestno fires now
Ouest1 fire
Sud1 fire
Sud-Estno fires now

None of these fires is large enough for a page of its own. See them on the map.

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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 10,460 km² of Haiti at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,790 km², ranking 105th of 200 countries.

1,790 km²detected in an average year

2023busiest year, 2,250 km²

2022quietest year, 1,180 km²

Marchpeak month, 25% of fire-days

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 2023, with 2,250 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 1,180 km². The 2021–2025 average is 6.2% 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 60% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 7 March 2012, with detections in 74 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 10,460 km² with at least one detection, 33% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detection	km²	Share
1 year	4,870	47%
2 years	2,160	21%
3 to 5 years	2,570	25%
6 to 10 years	815	7.8%
11 years or more	42	0.4%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 19.25, -72.25 and holds 20% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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Year	Detected km²	Fire-days
2012	2,020	1,992
2013	2,110	2,218
2014	1,790	1,836
2015	2,130	2,198
2016	1,340	1,325
2017	1,250	1,276
2018	1,820	1,841
2019	1,780	1,788
2020	2,030	2,098
2021	1,730	1,789
2022	1,180	1,179
2023	2,250	2,409
2024	1,920	1,957
2025	1,730	1,742

Nearby countries

Mexico139,170 km² in an average year
United States133,530 km² in an average year
Canada57,580 km² in an average year
Honduras25,150 km² in an average year
Nicaragua20,510 km² in an average year
Guatemala19,060 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 countries

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What sits behind each of these fires

Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.

**What is actually burning**The 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**Every fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.

**Alerts that stay quiet**A 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.