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Wildfires in Áncash
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 8,180 km² of Áncash at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 969 km², ranking 14th of 26 regions of Peru.
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 1,770 km² detected; the quietest was 2017, with 541 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.
July, August and September together hold 48% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 19 November 2016, with detections in 80 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 8,180 km² with at least one detection, 13% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 5,440 | 66% |
| 2 years | 1,670 | 20% |
| 3 to 5 years | 866 | 11% |
| 6 to 10 years | 177 | 2.2% |
| 11 years or more | 36 | 0.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -8.75, -78.75 and holds 13% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 846 | 835 |
| 2013 | 672 | 694 |
| 2014 | 749 | 779 |
| 2015 | 976 | 1,010 |
| 2016 | 1,770 | 1,821 |
| 2017 | 541 | 583 |
| 2018 | 729 | 733 |
| 2019 | 877 | 912 |
| 2020 | 1,500 | 1,502 |
| 2021 | 641 | 651 |
| 2022 | 1,080 | 1,097 |
| 2023 | 793 | 845 |
| 2024 | 1,500 | 1,546 |
| 2025 | 884 | 951 |
Other regions of Peru
- San Martín7,840 km² in an average year
- Ucayali7,180 km² in an average year
- Huanuco5,660 km² in an average year
- Loreto5,240 km² in an average year
- Junín3,900 km² in an average year
- Madre de Dios2,920 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
- La Libertad175 km
- Lima247 km
- Lambayeque248 km
- San Martín276 km
- Amazonas338 km
- Ucayali384 km