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Wildfires in Colón
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 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 1,970 km² of Colón at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 338 km², ranking 9th 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 2023, with 592 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 133 km². The 2021–2025 average is 25% 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 94% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 April 2020, with detections in 54 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,970 km² with at least one detection, 38% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 773 | 39% |
| 2 years | 455 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 years | 647 | 33% |
| 6 to 10 years | 98 | 5.0% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 9.25, -80.25 and holds 40% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 332 | 309 |
| 2013 | 229 | 201 |
| 2014 | 351 | 330 |
| 2015 | 387 | 355 |
| 2016 | 522 | 517 |
| 2017 | 311 | 283 |
| 2018 | 254 | 230 |
| 2019 | 453 | 447 |
| 2020 | 531 | 513 |
| 2021 | 214 | 196 |
| 2022 | 169 | 154 |
| 2023 | 592 | 606 |
| 2024 | 257 | 229 |
| 2025 | 133 | 136 |
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
- Chiriquí496 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
- Coclé55 km
- Veraguas156 km
- Los Santos166 km
- Panamá173 km
- Herrera175 km
- Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca198 km