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Wildfires in Nicaragua

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC

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Wildfires in Nicaragua

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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 86,690 km² of Nicaragua at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 20,510 km², ranking 57th of 200 countries.

20,510 km²detected in an average year
2023busiest year, 28,070 km²
2017quietest year, 12,840 km²
Aprilpeak month, 48% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 15,320 km2'122013: 25,890 km2'132014: 25,430 km2'142015: 18,150 km2'152016: 22,200 km2'162017: 12,840 km2'172018: 21,390 km2'182019: 25,080 km2'192020: 24,680 km2'202021: 13,200 km2'212022: 13,420 km2'222023: 28,070 km2'232024: 27,460 km2'242025: 13,950 km2'2528,070 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2023, with 28,070 km² detected; the quietest was 2017, with 12,840 km². The 2021–2025 average is 10% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 1.6%JFebruary: 4.5%FMarch: 13%MApril: 48%AMay: 25%MJune: 0.5%JJuly: 0.5%JAugust: 1.4%ASeptember: 0.7%SOctober: 1.2%ONovember: 1.9%NDecember: 1.7%D48%

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 86% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 7 May 2016, with detections in 2,873 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 86,690 km² with at least one detection, 54% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year22,64026%
2 years16,89019%
3 to 5 years32,56038%
6 to 10 years14,09016%
11 years or more5060.6%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 13.75, -84.25 and holds 5.7% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
201215,32015,338
201325,89028,274
201425,43027,603
201518,15019,123
201622,20025,528
201712,84013,404
201821,39023,551
201925,08027,969
202024,68027,651
202113,20013,115
202213,42013,643
202328,07035,264
202427,46034,378
202513,95014,144

Nearby countries

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 is actually burning
What is actually burningThe 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
Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.
Alerts that stay quiet
Alerts that stay quietA 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.