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Wildfires in Ñeembucú

Department of Paraguay

Wildfires in Ñeembucú

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 9,640 km² of Ñeembucú at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,240 km², ranking 10th of 18 regions of Paraguay.

2,240 km²detected in an average year
2020busiest year, 5,270 km²
2014quietest year, 1,050 km²
Augustpeak month, 19% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 2,770 km2'122013: 1,520 km2'132014: 1,050 km2'142015: 1,080 km2'152016: 1,620 km2'162017: 1,120 km2'172018: 2,060 km2'182019: 1,700 km2'192020: 5,270 km2'202021: 1,830 km2'212022: 3,850 km2'222023: 2,910 km2'232024: 1,730 km2'242025: 2,870 km2'255,270 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 5,270 km² detected; the quietest was 2014, with 1,050 km². The 2021–2025 average is 64% higher than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 12%JFebruary: 14%FMarch: 14%MApril: 5.4%AMay: 2.6%MJune: 2.4%JJuly: 5.1%JAugust: 19%ASeptember: 12%SOctober: 6.0%ONovember: 3.9%NDecember: 3.4%D19%

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

January, February and March together hold 40% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 17 January 2022, with detections in 296 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 9,640 km² with at least one detection, 56% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year2,28024%
2 years1,92020%
3 to 5 years3,99041%
6 to 10 years1,44015%
11 years or more8.80.1%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -26.25, -57.75 and holds 29% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20122,7703,128
20131,5201,702
20141,0501,060
20151,0801,109
20161,6201,730
20171,1201,193
20182,0602,333
20191,7001,917
20205,2709,594
20211,8302,286
20223,8506,507
20232,9104,532
20241,7301,965
20252,8703,507

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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