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Wildfires in Cerro Largo
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 13:28 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 1,580 km² of Cerro Largo at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 143 km², ranking 4th of 19 regions of Uruguay.
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 2020, with 287 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 51 km². The 2021–2025 average is 44% 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 52% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 4 June 2015, with detections in 14 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,580 km² with at least one detection, 4.9% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,270 | 80% |
| 2 years | 234 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 76 | 4.8% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1.0 | 0.1% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -32.25, -54.25 and holds 17% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 132 | 140 |
| 2013 | 179 | 184 |
| 2014 | 102 | 102 |
| 2015 | 254 | 265 |
| 2016 | 134 | 141 |
| 2017 | 97 | 97 |
| 2018 | 128 | 142 |
| 2019 | 241 | 244 |
| 2020 | 287 | 312 |
| 2021 | 85 | 86 |
| 2022 | 98 | 99 |
| 2023 | 61 | 72 |
| 2024 | 51 | 52 |
| 2025 | 155 | 167 |
Other regions of Uruguay
- Artigas196 km² in an average year
- Rocha170 km² in an average year
- Treinta y Tres163 km² in an average year
- Tacuarembó139 km² in an average year
- Colonia137 km² in an average year
- Soriano134 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
- Tacuarembó94 km
- Treinta y Tres111 km
- Durazno151 km
- Rocha173 km
- Lavalleja173 km
- Rivera180 km