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Wildfires in Chontales
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 10:27 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 3,360 km² of Chontales at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 543 km², ranking 12th of 17 regions of Nicaragua.
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 2013, with 909 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 270 km². The 2021–2025 average is 23% 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 92% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 27 April 2013, with detections in 68 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,360 km² with at least one detection, 33% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,490 | 44% |
| 2 years | 771 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 914 | 27% |
| 6 to 10 years | 181 | 5.4% |
| 11 years or more | 2.4 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 12.25, -85.25 and holds 38% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 586 | 567 |
| 2013 | 909 | 877 |
| 2014 | 624 | 574 |
| 2015 | 504 | 488 |
| 2016 | 447 | 405 |
| 2017 | 272 | 251 |
| 2018 | 448 | 435 |
| 2019 | 811 | 825 |
| 2020 | 624 | 622 |
| 2021 | 364 | 345 |
| 2022 | 548 | 517 |
| 2023 | 539 | 504 |
| 2024 | 652 | 632 |
| 2025 | 270 | 260 |
Other regions of Nicaragua
- North Caribbean Coast7,730 km² in an average year
- South Caribbean Coast3,310 km² in an average year
- Chinandega1,250 km² in an average year
- Jinotega1,130 km² in an average year
- León1,130 km² in an average year
- Matagalpa961 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.