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Wildfires in Zambales
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 09:19 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 2,370 km² of Zambales at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 699 km², ranking 8th 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 2015, with 949 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 487 km². The 2021–2025 average is 13% 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.
January, February and March together hold 69% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 March 2015, with detections in 49 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,370 km² with at least one detection, 65% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 477 | 20% |
| 2 years | 364 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 812 | 34% |
| 6 to 10 years | 684 | 29% |
| 11 years or more | 34 | 1.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 15.25, 120.25 and holds 64% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 616 | 640 |
| 2013 | 624 | 635 |
| 2014 | 813 | 891 |
| 2015 | 949 | 1,037 |
| 2016 | 692 | 718 |
| 2017 | 703 | 726 |
| 2018 | 692 | 723 |
| 2019 | 722 | 772 |
| 2020 | 770 | 788 |
| 2021 | 619 | 648 |
| 2022 | 487 | 489 |
| 2023 | 767 | 806 |
| 2024 | 790 | 838 |
| 2025 | 534 | 524 |
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
- Tarlac0 km
- Pampanga53 km
- Pangasinan55 km
- Bataan55 km
- Nueva Ecija120 km
- Bulacan120 km