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Wildfires in Venezuela
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Regions
- Amazonas10 fires
- Anzoátegui45 fires
- Apure4 fires
- Aragua1 fire
- Barinasno fires now
- Bolívar125 fires
- Carabobo4 fires
- Cojedes1 fire
- Delta Amacuro3 fires
- Distrito Capital1 fire
- Falcón10 fires
- Guárico State34 fires
- Lara1 fire
- Meridano fires now
- Miranda4 fires
- Monagas18 fires
- Nueva Esparta1 fire
- Portuguesano fires now
- Sucre3 fires
- Tachirano fires now
- Trujillono fires now
- Vargas stateno fires now
- Yaracuyno fires now
- Zulia3 fires
17 fires
Nothing matches.
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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 443,550 km² of Venezuela at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 125,480 km², ranking 20th 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 2024, with 191,040 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 70,380 km². The 2021–2025 average is 20% higher 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.
February, March and April together hold 58% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 23 March 2024, with detections in 5,133 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 443,550 km² with at least one detection, 64% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 87,890 | 20% |
| 2 years | 71,090 | 16% |
| 3 to 5 years | 170,790 | 39% |
| 6 to 10 years | 106,400 | 24% |
| 11 years or more | 7,390 | 1.7% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 9.75, -63.75 and holds 5.6% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 70,380 | 91,097 |
| 2013 | 121,460 | 159,834 |
| 2014 | 124,370 | 168,662 |
| 2015 | 110,670 | 150,023 |
| 2016 | 117,810 | 158,452 |
| 2017 | 93,230 | 121,598 |
| 2018 | 133,570 | 171,375 |
| 2019 | 152,750 | 198,059 |
| 2020 | 176,940 | 233,497 |
| 2021 | 88,890 | 112,620 |
| 2022 | 119,790 | 147,943 |
| 2023 | 140,240 | 178,476 |
| 2024 | 191,040 | 254,839 |
| 2025 | 115,530 | 146,874 |
Nearby countries
- Brazil613,680 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
- Peru49,920 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
- Trinidad and Tobago279 km
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines475 km
- Saint Lucia551 km
- Barbados584 km
- Curaçao612 km
- Dominica669 km
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
