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Wildfires in Ambato

Ambato, Argentina, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 16,147 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,500 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 25 Very low 6° · 91 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 11° · 76 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 10° · 84 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 11° · 76 % · 30 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 10° · 84 % · 28 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 13° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 15° · 55 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 15° · 69 % · 31 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

16,147
hectares burned
8.8 %
of its area
10
fires
1,827
km²

How many times has Ambato burned?

Ambato has burned 10 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Ambato fire, October 2023, with 1,914 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 16,147 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,612 hectares, 8.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
10
fires
5
years with fire
16,147
cumulative ha
14,612
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,500 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Argentina →

Fires that entered Ambato

  1. 1,914 ha Ambato fire, October 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,002 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,529 ha Ambato fire, November 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,020 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,880 ha Ambato fire, August 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,046 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,616 ha Ambato fire, July 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,611 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 5,964 ha Ambato fire, October 2020 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 5,925 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 356 ha Capayán fire, August 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 11,365 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 755 ha Andalgalá fire, 18 July 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 1,763 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 647 ha Paclín fire, September 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 4,950 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,428 ha Juan B. Alberdi fire, September 2018 0.8% of the municipality · 3,639 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 58 ha Capayán fire, August 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,164 ha in total · 5 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Instituto Geografico Nacional and UNHCR, OCHA ROLAC (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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