Wildfires in Venezuela
Situation over the last 30 days
73 fires detected in Venezuela over the last 30 days, totalling 13,294 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from September 6 at 02:44 PM.
The fire season in Venezuela peaks from August to October, at the end of the dry season. A large share of ignitions comes from land clearing and pasture burning, and fires spread into forest and wetlands in drought years.
- Monagas (VE)from September 6 at 02:30 AM to September 6 at 09:16 AM2,273 ha
- Anzoátegui (VE)from September 6 at 02:30 AM to September 6 at 08:59 AM864 ha
- Monagas (VE)from September 6 at 07:18 AM to September 6 at 02:44 PM709 ha
- Monagas (VE)from September 6 at 02:30 AM to September 6 at 08:22 AM690 ha
- Bolívar (VE)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 6 at 02:28 AM690 ha
- Monagas (VE)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 6 at 08:22 AM679 ha
- Anzoátegui (VE)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 6 at 08:22 AM674 ha
- Monagas (VE)from September 6 at 02:30 AM to September 6 at 08:22 AM382 ha
- Bolívar (VE)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 6 at 08:22 AM358 ha
- Anzoátegui (VE)from September 6 at 02:28 AM to September 6 at 02:44 PM329 ha
- Monagas (VE)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 6 at 08:22 AM286 ha
- Anzoátegui (VE)from September 6 at 02:30 AM to September 6 at 08:22 AM263 ha
- Monagas (VE)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:21 PM249 ha
- Monagas (VE)from September 6 at 02:30 AM to September 6 at 08:22 AM249 ha
- Monagas (VE)from September 6 at 02:30 AM to September 6 at 08:22 AM225 ha
- Trujillo (VE)from September 6 at 07:38 AM to September 6 at 09:01 AM190 ha
- Lara (VE)from September 6 at 07:38 AM to September 6 at 08:59 AM173 ha
- Trujillo (VE)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM171 ha
- Anzoátegui (VE)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:21 PM165 ha
- Falcón (VE)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 5 at 08:24 PM160 ha
- Lara (VE)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 6 at 08:59 AM146 ha
- Anzoátegui (VE)from September 6 at 02:30 AM to September 6 at 08:22 AM142 ha
- Falcón (VE)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 6 at 08:59 AM141 ha
- Bolívar (VE)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:21 PM140 ha
- Zulia (VE)from September 6 at 08:22 AM to September 6 at 09:18 AM131 ha
- Táchira (VE)from September 6 at 07:38 AM to September 6 at 09:20 AM127 ha
- Trujillo (VE)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM126 ha
- Monagas (VE)from September 6 at 07:18 AM to September 6 at 08:22 AM123 ha
- Zulia (VE)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM112 ha
- Guárico (VE)from September 5 at 08:41 PM to September 5 at 08:41 PM107 ha
- Zulia (VE)from September 6 at 08:22 AM to September 6 at 09:18 AM83 ha
- Amazonas (VE)from September 5 at 08:21 PM to September 5 at 08:41 PM78 ha
- Monagas (VE)from September 6 at 07:18 AM to September 6 at 08:22 AM72 ha
- Zulia (VE)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 5 at 08:41 PM71 ha
- Zulia (VE)from September 6 at 07:38 AM to September 6 at 08:59 AM71 ha
- Lara (VE)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 6 at 08:59 AM69 ha
- Anzoátegui (VE)from September 6 at 07:18 AM to September 6 at 08:22 AM69 ha
- Bolívar (VE)from September 6 at 07:18 AM to September 6 at 07:38 AM66 ha
- Zulia (VE)from September 5 at 08:24 PM to September 5 at 08:43 PM64 ha
- Bolívar (VE)from September 6 at 07:18 AM to September 6 at 08:22 AM62 ha
Other countries
- Spain
- Portugal
- Italy
- Greece
- Turkey
- Croatia
- Germany
- United Kingdom
- Ukraine
- Romania
- Bulgaria
- Serbia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Albania
- North Macedonia
- Montenegro
- Cyprus
- Switzerland
- Belgium
- Poland
- United States
- Canada
- Mexico
- Brazil
- Argentina
- Chile
- Bolivia
- Paraguay
- Colombia
- Peru
- Australia
- Indonesia
- Philippines
- Thailand
- Myanmar
- Vietnam
- Cambodia
- Laos
- India
- Pakistan
- Nepal
- China
- Mongolia
- Kazakhstan
- Russia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Syria
- Algeria
- Tunisia
- Morocco
- Libya
- Egypt
- Sudan
- South Sudan
- Ethiopia
- Kenya
- Tanzania
- Mozambique
- Zimbabwe
- Zambia
- Angola
- South Africa
- Madagascar
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Central African Republic
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Nigeria
- Ghana
- Ivory Coast
- Mali
- Burkina Faso
- Senegal
- Guinea
These figures come from satellite thermal detection and are not an official tally: only the emergency services of the country concerned are authoritative. The detected footprint overstates the area actually burnt, a 375 m pixel counting whole when only an edge burns. A freshly detected fire may not yet carry a place name and will then not appear in this list, though it is already on the map.
Learn more: what a forest fire is and how satellites detect it
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