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Wildfires in Argentina in 2024

140 fires larger than 1,500 hectares in Argentina in 2024, with 557,107 hectares burned according to their perimeters. Here is the whole year: what the official record says, when and where it burned and what the weather was like.

Only fires of 1,500 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

These figures leave out one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

The year in a few sentences

  1. According to Copernicus GWIS, 2,715,209 hectares burned in Argentina in 2024: 63% of the average of the other years from 2012 to 2024 (4,336,369 ha).

    Copernicus GWIS · See the data

  2. The worst week was 16 September to 22 September: 343,663 hectares burned in seven days, 13% of the year according to Copernicus GWIS.

    Copernicus GWIS · See the data

  3. The largest fire was the Punilla fire, which started on 19 September 2024 and burned 49,705 hectares: 9% of the area of the year's 140 fires with a page.

    WorldFires · See the data · Open the fire page

  4. The day of highest danger at a fire this year was 22 September 2024: a Fire Weather Index of 55 (extreme on the EFFIS scale) at the Bermejo fire, calculated by WorldFires from ERA5.

    WorldFires · ERA5 · See the data · Open the fire page

Official burned area
2.7 M ha
Copernicus GWIS · ×0.6 the average
Fires with a page
140
557,107 ha within their perimeters
Largest fire
50k ha
Punilla · 19 Sept
Highest FWI
55 Extreme
22 Sept · Bermejo

Map of the year

Copernicus GWIS
One circle per fire, sized by its area. Tap one to open its page.

Month by month

Hectares within the perimeters by the month the fire started. Tap a month to see it on the map.

Week by week, against other years

Copernicus GWIS

Cumulative burned area in 2024 over the lowest and highest of each week in the record since 2012, and its average. The bars below show what burned each week. Tap the chart to see a week. The average and the band are the Copernicus GWIS climatology for 2012–2025, which includes 2024 itself.

0 3.2 M 6.5 M 9.7 M Worst week · 344k ha Jan Mar May Jul Sep Nov
2024 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest Hectares each week

Every year since 2012

Copernicus GWIS

Hectares burned per year in the official record. Tap a year to open its yearbook.

2024: 2,715,209 ha Average of the other years: 4,336,369 ha

Cite this

Markdown version

Copy the sentences with their source and link. WorldFires data are CC BY 4.0: credit WorldFires and the original source.

- According to Copernicus GWIS, 2,715,209 hectares burned in Argentina in 2024: 63% of the average of the other years from 2012 to 2024 (4,336,369 ha).
- The worst week was 16 September to 22 September: 343,663 hectares burned in seven days, 13% of the year according to Copernicus GWIS.
- The largest fire was the Punilla fire, which started on 19 September 2024 and burned 49,705 hectares: 9% of the area of the year's 140 fires with a page.
- The day of highest danger at a fire this year was 22 September 2024: a Fire Weather Index of 55 (extreme on the EFFIS scale) at the Bermejo fire, calculated by WorldFires from ERA5.

WorldFires, “Wildfires in Argentina in 2024”, https://worldfires.org/en/country/argentina/2024 (accessed 7 November 2026). Sources: Copernicus GWIS, WorldFires, WorldFires · ERA5.

Fires of 2024, largest first · 141

Burned area in 2024 (Copernicus Land, Sentinel-3)

According to Copernicus Land, 3,699,987 ha burned in 2024: rank 5 of 7 complete years (1 = the most burned). The average of those years is 5,099,512 ha.

The area the Sentinel-3 satellite sees burned each month, separate from the fire pages. It is the same source and the same method every year, so years can be compared with each other. It counts everything that burns, including crop and pasture burning, which is why it does not match the fire pages or the official statistics.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Where most burned in 2024

  1. Santa Fe 835,700 ha
  2. Santiago del Estero 573,967 ha
  3. Formosa 528,509 ha
  4. Chaco 376,826 ha
  5. Corrientes 334,182 ha
  6. Córdoba 278,911 ha
  7. Salta 151,394 ha
  8. San Luis 144,142 ha
  9. Tucumán 141,256 ha
  10. Buenos Aires 132,037 ha

The whole series since 2018

Source: Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, “Burnt Area 2018-present (raster 300 m), global, monthly – version 4”, monthly Sentinel-3 product, DOI 10.2909/8fa58061-28ab-49bb-9b77-c26b50733e34. Generated using European Union’s Copernicus Land Monitoring Service information; worldfires.org adds up, by country and region, the true area of the 300 m cells where a burn was detected. Latest month published: May 2026. Product page · Methodology

Sources and limits

Fire-page areas are satellite-measured perimeters and may differ from official statistics. The yearly and weekly record is the Copernicus GWIS estimate. The FWI is our own calculation from ERA5 at each fire's location: it is not an official danger warning.

Official information for Argentina is published by: Servicio Nacional de Manejo del Fuego

Perimeters: Copernicus EFFIS and GWIS (and MTBS, NIFC or NBAC in North America). Hotspots: NASA FIRMS (VIIRS). Weather: Copernicus ERA5 via Open-Meteo. How it is calculated