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Wildfires in Peru
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Regions
- Amazonas14 fires
- Apurímac13 fires
- Arequipa5 fires
- Ayacucho15 fires
- Cajamarca32 fires
- Callao1 fire
- Cusco Departament17 fires
- Huancavelica22 fires
- Huanuco54 fires
- Ica4 fires
- Junín55 fires
- La Libertad14 fires
- Lambayeque2 fires
- Lima4 fires
- Lima Province2 fires
- Loreto54 fires
- Madre de Dios31 fires
- Moquegua3 fires
- Pasco24 fires
- Piura4 fires
- Puno22 fires
- San Martín20 fires
- Tacnano fires now
- Tumbesno fires now
- Ucayali67 fires
- Áncash18 fires
28 fires
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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 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 237,400 km² of Peru at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 49,920 km², ranking 40th of 200 countries.
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 2020, with 66,230 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 38,340 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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.
August, September and October together hold 69% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 28 August 2020, with detections in 2,936 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 237,400 km² with at least one detection, 39% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 100,300 | 42% |
| 2 years | 44,450 | 19% |
| 3 to 5 years | 54,460 | 23% |
| 6 to 10 years | 33,950 | 14% |
| 11 years or more | 4,240 | 1.8% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -8.75, -75.25 and holds 3.3% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 51,970 | 61,853 |
| 2013 | 43,950 | 49,910 |
| 2014 | 41,160 | 44,941 |
| 2015 | 48,010 | 54,640 |
| 2016 | 60,210 | 68,570 |
| 2017 | 40,960 | 44,975 |
| 2018 | 44,180 | 49,033 |
| 2019 | 49,540 | 56,366 |
| 2020 | 66,230 | 75,199 |
| 2021 | 44,710 | 51,500 |
| 2022 | 57,790 | 66,491 |
| 2023 | 51,070 | 60,736 |
| 2024 | 60,710 | 72,453 |
| 2025 | 38,340 | 41,365 |
Nearby countries
- Brazil613,680 km² in an average year
- Venezuela125,480 km² in an average year
- Bolivia90,610 km² in an average year
- Argentina83,750 km² in an average year
- Colombia72,700 km² in an average year
- Paraguay52,970 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 countries
- Ecuador971 km
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
