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Wildfires in Zulia
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 06:20 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 25,680 km² of Zulia at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 4,740 km², ranking 9th 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 8,050 km² detected; the quietest was 2017, with 2,080 km². The 2021–2025 average is 11% 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 64% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 26 March 2016, with detections in 378 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 25,680 km² with at least one detection, 38% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 9,780 | 38% |
| 2 years | 6,110 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 7,480 | 29% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2,230 | 8.7% |
| 11 years or more | 74 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 10.75, -71.75 and holds 8.1% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2,990 | 3,583 |
| 2013 | 4,080 | 5,034 |
| 2014 | 6,190 | 8,118 |
| 2015 | 3,720 | 4,888 |
| 2016 | 6,740 | 9,563 |
| 2017 | 2,080 | 2,651 |
| 2018 | 5,230 | 6,533 |
| 2019 | 6,240 | 7,310 |
| 2020 | 8,050 | 10,984 |
| 2021 | 3,140 | 3,610 |
| 2022 | 3,710 | 4,201 |
| 2023 | 4,020 | 4,563 |
| 2024 | 5,710 | 6,701 |
| 2025 | 4,470 | 5,129 |
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
- La Guajira, Colombia122 km
- Trujillo156 km
- Falcón197 km
- Cesar, Colombia225 km
- Lara278 km
- Magdalena, Colombia278 km