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Wildfires in Baucau
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 1,030 km² of Baucau at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 235 km², ranking 7th of 13 regions of Timor-Leste.
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 2019, with 359 km² detected; the quietest was 2016, with 26 km². The 2021–2025 average is 7.9% 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.
August, September and October together hold 88% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 19 September 2014, with detections in 56 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,030 km² with at least one detection, 51% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 308 | 30% |
| 2 years | 195 | 19% |
| 3 to 5 years | 376 | 36% |
| 6 to 10 years | 142 | 14% |
| 11 years or more | 9.8 | 1.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -8.75, 126.25 and holds 73% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 292 | 286 |
| 2013 | 124 | 111 |
| 2014 | 331 | 349 |
| 2015 | 347 | 350 |
| 2016 | 26 | 21 |
| 2017 | 214 | 239 |
| 2018 | 260 | 286 |
| 2019 | 359 | 464 |
| 2020 | 308 | 385 |
| 2021 | 147 | 141 |
| 2022 | 99 | 90 |
| 2023 | 358 | 480 |
| 2024 | 240 | 277 |
| 2025 | 186 | 181 |
Other regions of Timor-Leste
- Manatuto486 km² in an average year
- Manufahi396 km² in an average year
- Viqueque287 km² in an average year
- Bobonaro276 km² in an average year
- Cova Lima258 km² in an average year
- Oe-Cusse Ambeno250 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.