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Wildfires in Caazapá

Department of Paraguay

Wildfires in Caazapá

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 7,580 km² of Caazapá at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,500 km², ranking 6th of 18 regions of Paraguay.

2,500 km²detected in an average year
2020busiest year, 3,890 km²
2015quietest year, 1,870 km²
Augustpeak month, 26% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 2,470 km2'122013: 2,720 km2'132014: 2,050 km2'142015: 1,870 km2'152016: 2,970 km2'162017: 2,570 km2'172018: 2,770 km2'182019: 2,940 km2'192020: 3,890 km2'202021: 2,720 km2'212022: 2,300 km2'222023: 1,880 km2'232024: 1,880 km2'242025: 2,050 km2'253,890 km2

Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.

The busiest year was 2020, with 3,890 km² detected; the quietest was 2015, with 1,870 km². The 2021–2025 average is 10% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 6.4%JFebruary: 7.4%FMarch: 7.1%MApril: 3.7%AMay: 2.7%MJune: 4.0%JJuly: 13%JAugust: 26%ASeptember: 14%SOctober: 7.8%ONovember: 5.3%NDecember: 3.3%D26%

Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.

July, August and September together hold 52% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 October 2020, with detections in 228 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 7,580 km² with at least one detection, 73% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year1,04014%
2 years1,03014%
3 to 5 years2,83037%
6 to 10 years2,44032%
11 years or more2313.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -26.25, -55.75 and holds 31% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20122,4703,097
20132,7203,479
20142,0502,522
20151,8702,109
20162,9703,686
20172,5703,074
20182,7703,284
20192,9403,774
20203,8906,226
20212,7203,485
20222,3003,107
20231,8802,185
20241,8802,181
20252,0502,538

Other regions of Paraguay

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.

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