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Wildfires in Cafayate

Cafayate, Argentina, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 1,777 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 13° · 60 % · 30 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 17° · 49 % · 40 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 49 % · 46 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 14° · 69 % · 20 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 48 % · 40 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 59 % · 30 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

1,777
hectares burned
1.1 %
of its area
3
fires
1,575
km²

How many times has Cafayate burned?

Cafayate has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Cafayate fire, October 2023, with 1,641 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
1,777
cumulative ha
27 Oct 2023
most recent

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 Cafayate

  1. 1,641 ha Cafayate fire, October 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 1,634 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 129 ha Guachipas fire, September 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,439 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 7 ha Guachipas fire, July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 4,377 ha in total · 9 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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