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Wildfires in Jamaica
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Regions
- Clarendonno fires now
- Hanoverno fires now
- Kingstonno fires now
- Manchesterno fires now
- Portlandno fires now
- Saint Andrewno fires now
- Saint Annno fires now
- Saint Catherineno fires now
- Saint Elizabethno fires now
- Saint Jamesno fires now
- Saint Maryno fires now
- Saint Thomasno fires now
- Trelawnyno fires now
- Westmorelandno fires now
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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 4,920 km² of Jamaica at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 804 km², ranking 124th of 200 countries.
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 2015, with 1,220 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 449 km². The 2021–2025 average is 33% 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 47% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 26 February 2013, with detections in 60 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,920 km² with at least one detection, 29% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,440 | 50% |
| 2 years | 1,060 | 22% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,030 | 21% |
| 6 to 10 years | 358 | 7.3% |
| 11 years or more | 25 | 0.5% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 17.75, -77.25 and holds 21% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 827 | 854 |
| 2013 | 1,130 | 1,191 |
| 2014 | 1,140 | 1,245 |
| 2015 | 1,220 | 1,346 |
| 2016 | 504 | 549 |
| 2017 | 723 | 852 |
| 2018 | 655 | 1,030 |
| 2019 | 814 | 1,069 |
| 2020 | 1,020 | 1,073 |
| 2021 | 555 | 606 |
| 2022 | 449 | 497 |
| 2023 | 938 | 1,012 |
| 2024 | 664 | 696 |
| 2025 | 614 | 677 |
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
- Cuba403 km
- Haiti552 km
- Dominican Republic636 km
- Turks and Caicos Islands686 km
- Colombia869 km
- Nicaragua871 km
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What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
