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Wildfires in Uruguay
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 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 21,520 km² of Uruguay at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,050 km², ranking 99th of 200 countries.
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 3,820 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 919 km². The 2021–2025 average is 27% 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.
July, August and September together hold 44% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 31 December 2021, with detections in 224 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 21,520 km² with at least one detection, 6.4% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 16,820 | 78% |
| 2 years | 3,330 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 1,220 | 5.7% |
| 6 to 10 years | 142 | 0.7% |
| 11 years or more | 6.3 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -30.25, -57.75 and holds 4.3% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2,160 | 2,357 |
| 2013 | 2,270 | 2,463 |
| 2014 | 1,460 | 1,566 |
| 2015 | 3,820 | 4,111 |
| 2016 | 1,740 | 1,835 |
| 2017 | 1,580 | 1,682 |
| 2018 | 1,660 | 1,818 |
| 2019 | 2,140 | 2,275 |
| 2020 | 3,570 | 3,960 |
| 2021 | 1,770 | 1,990 |
| 2022 | 1,960 | 2,205 |
| 2023 | 1,670 | 1,919 |
| 2024 | 919 | 1,072 |
| 2025 | 2,020 | 2,301 |
Nearby countries
- Brazil613,680 km² in an average year
- Venezuela125,480 km² in an average year
- Bolivia90,610 km² in an average year
- Argentina83,750 km² in an average year
- Colombia72,700 km² in an average year
- Paraguay52,970 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 countries
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
