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Wildfires in Chiriquí
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 3,120 km² of Chiriquí at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 496 km², ranking 6th of 12 regions of Panama.
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 2016, with 783 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 217 km². The 2021–2025 average is 47% 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 92% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 22 March 2016, with detections in 44 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,120 km² with at least one detection, 31% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,390 | 45% |
| 2 years | 771 | 25% |
| 3 to 5 years | 810 | 26% |
| 6 to 10 years | 151 | 4.8% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 8.25, -82.75 and holds 28% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 603 | 577 |
| 2013 | 566 | 571 |
| 2014 | 581 | 573 |
| 2015 | 695 | 690 |
| 2016 | 783 | 810 |
| 2017 | 430 | 419 |
| 2018 | 382 | 364 |
| 2019 | 747 | 723 |
| 2020 | 454 | 450 |
| 2021 | 245 | 221 |
| 2022 | 340 | 319 |
| 2023 | 420 | 390 |
| 2024 | 481 | 487 |
| 2025 | 217 | 187 |
Other regions of Panama
- Panamá1,650 km² in an average year
- Veraguas1,260 km² in an average year
- Coclé900 km² in an average year
- Darién728 km² in an average year
- Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca505 km² in an average year
- Los Santos493 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
- Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca110 km
- Puntarenas, Costa Rica124 km
- Veraguas165 km
- Limón, Costa Rica175 km
- Cartago, Costa Rica199 km
- Herrera227 km