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Wildfires in Lara
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 9,720 km² of Lara at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,190 km², ranking 14th of 25 regions of Venezuela.
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 3,260 km² detected; the quietest was 2021, with 1,380 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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 57% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 March 2020, with detections in 188 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 9,720 km² with at least one detection, 52% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,740 | 28% |
| 2 years | 1,930 | 20% |
| 3 to 5 years | 3,640 | 37% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1,340 | 14% |
| 11 years or more | 66 | 0.7% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 10.25, -69.25 and holds 25% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,380 | 1,654 |
| 2013 | 2,300 | 2,687 |
| 2014 | 2,280 | 2,668 |
| 2015 | 1,930 | 2,278 |
| 2016 | 2,180 | 2,565 |
| 2017 | 1,850 | 2,192 |
| 2018 | 2,760 | 3,226 |
| 2019 | 2,920 | 3,314 |
| 2020 | 3,260 | 4,242 |
| 2021 | 1,380 | 1,534 |
| 2022 | 2,020 | 2,205 |
| 2023 | 2,220 | 2,556 |
| 2024 | 2,580 | 3,115 |
| 2025 | 1,650 | 1,867 |
Other regions of Venezuela
- Bolívar22,520 km² in an average year
- Apure20,660 km² in an average year
- Guárico State20,230 km² in an average year
- Anzoátegui13,060 km² in an average year
- Monagas6,380 km² in an average year
- Portuguesa5,860 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.