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Wildfires in Cortés
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 2,900 km² of Cortés at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 809 km², ranking 10th of 18 regions of Honduras.
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 2019, with 1,110 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 397 km². The 2021–2025 average is 36% 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.
March, April and May together hold 72% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 28 April 2015, with detections in 64 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,900 km² with at least one detection, 61% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 674 | 23% |
| 2 years | 464 | 16% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,000 | 35% |
| 6 to 10 years | 704 | 24% |
| 11 years or more | 55 | 1.9% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 15.25, -87.75 and holds 44% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 780 | 912 |
| 2013 | 950 | 1,177 |
| 2014 | 992 | 1,151 |
| 2015 | 980 | 1,231 |
| 2016 | 966 | 1,134 |
| 2017 | 906 | 1,109 |
| 2018 | 727 | 834 |
| 2019 | 1,110 | 1,467 |
| 2020 | 910 | 1,145 |
| 2021 | 406 | 418 |
| 2022 | 617 | 722 |
| 2023 | 808 | 1,026 |
| 2024 | 768 | 935 |
| 2025 | 397 | 494 |
Other regions of Honduras
- Olancho7,060 km² in an average year
- Gracias a Dios3,600 km² in an average year
- Yoro2,380 km² in an average year
- Francisco Morazán2,260 km² in an average year
- El Paraíso1,740 km² in an average year
- Colón1,630 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
- Yoro53 km
- Santa Bárbara53 km
- Comayagua55 km
- Francisco Morazán77 km
- La Paz111 km
- Atlántida120 km