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Wildfires in South Cotabato
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 08:29 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 1,520 km² of South Cotabato at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 250 km², ranking 32nd of 118 regions of Philippines.
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 769 km² detected; the quietest was 2025, with 50 km². The 2021–2025 average is 53% lower than 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.
February, March and April together hold 78% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 7 April 2016, with detections in 70 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,520 km² with at least one detection, 32% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 697 | 46% |
| 2 years | 342 | 22% |
| 3 to 5 years | 383 | 25% |
| 6 to 10 years | 100 | 6.6% |
| 11 years or more | 1.2 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 6.25, 124.75 and holds 55% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 137 | 125 |
| 2013 | 159 | 147 |
| 2014 | 201 | 181 |
| 2015 | 402 | 390 |
| 2016 | 769 | 920 |
| 2017 | 52 | 44 |
| 2018 | 209 | 213 |
| 2019 | 374 | 391 |
| 2020 | 420 | 411 |
| 2021 | 91 | 79 |
| 2022 | 95 | 91 |
| 2023 | 126 | 116 |
| 2024 | 418 | 446 |
| 2025 | 50 | 41 |
Other regions of Philippines
- Palawan1,560 km² in an average year
- Occidental Mindoro1,260 km² in an average year
- Bukidnon1,070 km² in an average year
- Isabela800 km² in an average year
- Nueva Ecija766 km² in an average year
- Negros Occidental751 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
- Sarangani55 km
- Davao del Sur55 km
- General Santos55 km
- Maguindanao78 km
- Sultan Kudarat78 km
- Cotabato111 km