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Wildfires in Panama
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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- Chiriquí1 fire
- Cocléno fires now
- Colón1 fire
- Darién2 fires
- Emberá-Wounaan Comarcano fires now
- Guna Yalano fires now
- Herrerano fires now
- Los Santosno fires now
- Ngöbe-Buglé Comarcano fires now
- Panamá1 fire
- Veraguasno 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 34,930 km² of Panama at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 6,910 km², ranking 72nd 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 2019, with 9,990 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 3,410 km². The 2021–2025 average is 21% 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 93% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 31 March 2014, with detections in 581 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 34,930 km² with at least one detection, 45% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 11,280 | 32% |
| 2 years | 8,030 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 12,280 | 35% |
| 6 to 10 years | 3,260 | 9.3% |
| 11 years or more | 82 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 8.25, -80.75 and holds 8.0% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7,090 | 6,983 |
| 2013 | 6,500 | 6,369 |
| 2014 | 7,310 | 7,364 |
| 2015 | 8,590 | 8,797 |
| 2016 | 8,300 | 9,004 |
| 2017 | 5,950 | 5,937 |
| 2018 | 5,330 | 5,119 |
| 2019 | 9,990 | 10,625 |
| 2020 | 7,740 | 7,652 |
| 2021 | 4,850 | 4,562 |
| 2022 | 5,230 | 4,930 |
| 2023 | 9,460 | 9,845 |
| 2024 | 6,990 | 6,814 |
| 2025 | 3,410 | 3,174 |
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
- Costa Rica592 km
- Nicaragua721 km
- Colombia937 km
- El Salvador989 km
- Honduras1,015 km
- Ecuador1,062 km
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
