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Wildfires in Darién
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 4,010 km² of Darién at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 728 km², ranking 4th 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 1,280 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 228 km². The 2021–2025 average is 45% 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 96% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 14 April 2016, with detections in 139 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,010 km² with at least one detection, 41% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,410 | 35% |
| 2 years | 965 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,370 | 34% |
| 6 to 10 years | 264 | 6.6% |
| 11 years or more | 1.2 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 8.75, -78.25 and holds 40% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,120 | 1,200 |
| 2013 | 366 | 325 |
| 2014 | 965 | 1,045 |
| 2015 | 1,010 | 1,048 |
| 2016 | 1,280 | 1,506 |
| 2017 | 552 | 557 |
| 2018 | 454 | 414 |
| 2019 | 1,190 | 1,300 |
| 2020 | 650 | 613 |
| 2021 | 382 | 341 |
| 2022 | 354 | 313 |
| 2023 | 900 | 898 |
| 2024 | 733 | 720 |
| 2025 | 228 | 208 |
Other regions of Panama
- Panamá1,650 km² in an average year
- Veraguas1,260 km² in an average year
- Coclé900 km² in an average year
- Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca505 km² in an average year
- Chiriquí496 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
- Panamá54 km
- Emberá-Wounaan Comarca78 km
- Chocó, Colombia123 km
- Coclé219 km
- Colón226 km
- Los Santos246 km