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Wildfires in Tumbes

Department of Peru

Wildfires in Tumbes

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 730 km² of Tumbes at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 172 km², ranking 22nd of 26 regions of Peru.

172 km²detected in an average year
2024busiest year, 231 km²
2022quietest year, 136 km²
Decemberpeak month, 27% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 146 km2'122013: 181 km2'132014: 144 km2'142015: 161 km2'152016: 210 km2'162017: 162 km2'172018: 166 km2'182019: 161 km2'192020: 218 km2'202021: 173 km2'212022: 136 km2'222023: 174 km2'232024: 231 km2'242025: 144 km2'25231 km2

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

The busiest year was 2024, with 231 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 136 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 11%JFebruary: 1.5%FMarch: 0.3%MApril: 0.9%AMay: 2.3%MJune: 14%JJuly: 13%JAugust: 4.6%ASeptember: 4.7%SOctober: 6.5%ONovember: 15%NDecember: 27%D27%

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

November, December and January together hold 52% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 29 November 2013, with detections in 20 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 730 km² with at least one detection, 43% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year27037%
2 years14520%
3 to 5 years16322%
6 to 10 years13118%
11 years or more212.9%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -3.75, -80.25 and holds 79% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012146141
2013181222
2014144163
2015161184
2016210252
2017162166
2018166171
2019161160
2020218243
2021173194
2022136142
2023174246
2024231247
2025144151

Other regions of Peru

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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