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Wildfires in General Santos

Highly Urbanized City of Philippines

Wildfires in General Santos

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 07:28 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 398 km² of General Santos at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 82 km², ranking 58th of 118 regions of Philippines.

82 km²detected in an average year
2016busiest year, 152 km²
2025quietest year, 28 km²
Marchpeak month, 24% of fire-days

Year by year

2012: 52 km2'122013: 92 km2'132014: 116 km2'142015: 121 km2'152016: 152 km2'162017: 32 km2'172018: 92 km2'182019: 94 km2'192020: 108 km2'202021: 31 km2'212022: 60 km2'222023: 62 km2'232024: 102 km2'242025: 28 km2'25152 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 152 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 28 km². The 2021–2025 average is 47% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

January: 5.4%JFebruary: 16%FMarch: 24%MApril: 22%AMay: 6.7%MJune: 1.8%JJuly: 1.4%JAugust: 3.9%ASeptember: 4.5%SOctober: 4.6%ONovember: 3.4%NDecember: 6.0%D24%

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 62% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 30 March 2016, with detections in 14 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 398 km² with at least one detection, 45% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detectionkm²Share
1 year12933%
2 years8922%
3 to 5 years13734%
6 to 10 years4110%
11 years or more2.40.6%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 6.25, 125.25 and holds 86% of the region's fire-days.

The figures

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YearDetected km²Fire-days
20125251
20139293
2014116125
2015121124
2016152184
20173228
201892104
20199490
202010896
20213125
20226059
20236255
202410297
20252827

Other regions of Philippines

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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