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Wildfires in Para
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 1,040 km² of Para at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 181 km², ranking 5th of 10 regions of Suriname.
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 2023, with 412 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 63 km². The 2021–2025 average is 12% 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.
September, October and November together hold 83% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 1 October 2023, with detections in 25 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,040 km² with at least one detection, 36% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 440 | 43% |
| 2 years | 226 | 22% |
| 3 to 5 years | 286 | 28% |
| 6 to 10 years | 83 | 8.0% |
| 11 years or more | 1.2 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 5.25, -55.25 and holds 49% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 269 | 340 |
| 2013 | 91 | 97 |
| 2014 | 186 | 234 |
| 2015 | 201 | 253 |
| 2016 | 238 | 346 |
| 2017 | 107 | 123 |
| 2018 | 181 | 213 |
| 2019 | 211 | 296 |
| 2020 | 180 | 207 |
| 2021 | 63 | 65 |
| 2022 | 84 | 83 |
| 2023 | 412 | 599 |
| 2024 | 169 | 208 |
| 2025 | 136 | 163 |
Other regions of Suriname
- Sipaliwini621 km² in an average year
- Nickerie388 km² in an average year
- Brokopondo287 km² in an average year
- Marowijne226 km² in an average year
- Coronie72 km² in an average year
- Saramacca68 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
- Brokopondo55 km
- Saramacca78 km
- Sipaliwini111 km
- Marowijne123 km
- Coronie123 km
- French Guiana, France175 km