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Wildfires in Lavalleja
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 1,320 km² of Lavalleja at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 123 km², ranking 9th 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 2015, with 325 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 54 km². The 2021–2025 average is 39% 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 45% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 30 September 2015, with detections in 16 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,320 km² with at least one detection, 6.4% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,050 | 79% |
| 2 years | 190 | 14% |
| 3 to 5 years | 80 | 6.1% |
| 6 to 10 years | 4.1 | 0.3% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -33.75, -54.75 and holds 32% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 119 | 127 |
| 2013 | 131 | 149 |
| 2014 | 69 | 82 |
| 2015 | 325 | 378 |
| 2016 | 78 | 88 |
| 2017 | 81 | 84 |
| 2018 | 109 | 113 |
| 2019 | 145 | 154 |
| 2020 | 218 | 254 |
| 2021 | 54 | 72 |
| 2022 | 104 | 110 |
| 2023 | 96 | 107 |
| 2024 | 54 | 58 |
| 2025 | 134 | 136 |
Other regions of Uruguay
- Artigas196 km² in an average year
- Rocha170 km² in an average year
- Treinta y Tres163 km² in an average year
- Cerro Largo143 km² in an average year
- Tacuarembó139 km² in an average year
- Colonia137 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
- Treinta y Tres72 km
- Rocha92 km
- Durazno144 km
- Cerro Largo173 km
- Tacuarembó173 km
- Canelones177 km