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Wildfires in Abra

Province of Philippines

Wildfires in Abra

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 2,600 km² of Abra at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 633 km², ranking 9th of 118 regions of Philippines.

633 km²detected in an average year
2015busiest year, 973 km²
2022quietest year, 307 km²
Marchpeak month, 28% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 536 km2'122013: 718 km2'132014: 785 km2'142015: 973 km2'152016: 502 km2'162017: 653 km2'172018: 589 km2'182019: 873 km2'192020: 632 km2'202021: 425 km2'212022: 307 km2'222023: 768 km2'232024: 782 km2'242025: 313 km2'25973 km2

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

The busiest year was 2015, with 973 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 307 km². The 2021–2025 average is 26% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 20%JFebruary: 22%FMarch: 28%MApril: 19%AMay: 2.7%MJune: 0.1%JJuly: 0.0%JAugust: 0.0%ASeptember: 0.1%SOctober: 0.3%ONovember: 1.9%NDecember: 6.3%D28%

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 70% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 20 March 2015, with detections in 75 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 2,600 km² with at least one detection, 54% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year72328%
2 years47618%
3 to 5 years89534%
6 to 10 years47818%
11 years or more251.0%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 17.75, 120.75 and holds 75% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
2012536543
2013718730
2014785840
20159731,089
2016502504
2017653715
2018589615
2019873956
2020632646
2021425445
2022307299
2023768812
2024782876
2025313302

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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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