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Wildfires in Tachira
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 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 4,220 km² of Tachira at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 584 km², ranking 20th 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 2019, with 1,050 km² detected; the quietest was 2017, with 320 km². The 2021–2025 average is 5.4% 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.
February, March and April together hold 57% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 26 February 2019, with detections in 58 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,220 km² with at least one detection, 23% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,130 | 50% |
| 2 years | 1,110 | 26% |
| 3 to 5 years | 880 | 21% |
| 6 to 10 years | 96 | 2.3% |
| 11 years or more | 7.5 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 7.75, -72.25 and holds 36% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 334 | 418 |
| 2013 | 495 | 586 |
| 2014 | 737 | 844 |
| 2015 | 454 | 539 |
| 2016 | 684 | 748 |
| 2017 | 320 | 392 |
| 2018 | 527 | 624 |
| 2019 | 1,050 | 1,124 |
| 2020 | 1,010 | 1,039 |
| 2021 | 378 | 484 |
| 2022 | 368 | 406 |
| 2023 | 592 | 615 |
| 2024 | 786 | 808 |
| 2025 | 432 | 451 |
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.
Nearby regions
- Norte de Santander, Colombia78 km
- Merida123 km
- Santander, Colombia174 km
- Boyacá, Colombia229 km
- Bolívar, Colombia246 km
- Trujillo276 km