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Wildfires in Emberá-Wounaan Comarca
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 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 740 km² of Emberá-Wounaan Comarca at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 95 km², ranking 10th 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 283 km² detected; the quietest was 2013, with 11 km². The 2021–2025 average is 37% 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 99% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 14 April 2016, with detections in 47 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 740 km² with at least one detection, 21% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 390 | 53% |
| 2 years | 199 | 27% |
| 3 to 5 years | 150 | 20% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2.4 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 8.25, -77.75 and holds 53% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 85 | 74 |
| 2013 | 11 | 10 |
| 2014 | 97 | 90 |
| 2015 | 103 | 92 |
| 2016 | 283 | 281 |
| 2017 | 47 | 39 |
| 2018 | 59 | 53 |
| 2019 | 182 | 188 |
| 2020 | 106 | 90 |
| 2021 | 74 | 61 |
| 2022 | 60 | 54 |
| 2023 | 108 | 99 |
| 2024 | 104 | 94 |
| 2025 | 17 | 14 |
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
- Chocó, Colombia55 km
- Darién78 km
- Panamá123 km
- Córdoba, Colombia227 km
- Coclé280 km
- Los Santos280 km