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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 2026-09-21

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 124,980 km² of Philippines at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 23,200 km², ranking 55th of 200 countries.

23,200 km²detected in an average year
2016busiest year, 37,380 km²
2025quietest year, 10,740 km²
Aprilpeak month, 31% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 17,260 km2'122013: 22,020 km2'132014: 28,360 km2'142015: 35,820 km2'152016: 37,380 km2'162017: 15,960 km2'172018: 21,590 km2'182019: 33,060 km2'192020: 29,540 km2'202021: 15,160 km2'212022: 10,990 km2'222023: 16,640 km2'232024: 30,320 km2'242025: 10,740 km2'2537,380 km2

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

The busiest year was 2016, with 37,380 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 10,740 km². The 2021–2025 average is 40% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 6.4%JFebruary: 13%FMarch: 27%MApril: 31%AMay: 8.9%MJune: 1.7%JJuly: 1.2%JAugust: 1.9%ASeptember: 1.7%SOctober: 2.0%ONovember: 2.3%NDecember: 3.2%D31%

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

February, March and April together hold 71% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 19 March 2015, with detections in 1,224 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 124,980 km² with at least one detection, 38% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year50,66041%
2 years26,85021%
3 to 5 years35,29028%
6 to 10 years11,7309.4%
11 years or more4530.4%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 15.25, 120.25 and holds 3.5% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
201217,26016,834
201322,02021,870
201428,36028,765
201535,82037,674
201637,38041,045
201715,96015,826
201821,59022,153
201933,06034,803
202029,54030,884
202115,16015,575
202210,99011,187
202316,64017,868
202430,32032,735
202510,74010,605

Nearby countries

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

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What is actually burning
What is actually burningThe ESA WorldCover class under every detection, read at 10 m. Forest, cropland, shrub or built-up, named rather than guessed.
Has this ground burned before
Has this ground burned beforeEvery fire is checked against an archive back to 2012, which answers with the years this same ground burned.
Alerts that stay quiet
Alerts that stay quietA fire must miss two passes before we say it stopped and grow by more than half again before we say it spread. Nothing is said twice.