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Wildfires in Chilecito

Chilecito, Argentina, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 46,971 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.9% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 46 % · 31 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Low 21° · 40 % · 32 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 41 % · 21 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 25° · 22 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Moderate 27° · 21 % · 39 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Moderate 25° · 23 % · 37 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 25° · 31 % · 42 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 29° · 22 % · 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

46,971
hectares burned
8.9 %
of its area
8
fires
5,260
km²

How many times has Chilecito burned?

Chilecito has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Chilecito fire, 27 July 2026, with 7,672 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 46,971 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 45,197 hectares, 8.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
8
fires
5
years with fire
46,971
cumulative ha
45,197
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 Chilecito

  1. 7,672 ha Chilecito fire, 27 July 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 7,662 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,970 ha Chilecito fire, 27 July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,970 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 10,972 ha Capital fire, August 2024 2.1% of the municipality · 31,815 ha in total · 27 days
  4. 8,789 ha Chilecito fire, November 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 10,800 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 5,148 ha Chilecito fire, November 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,316 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 3,666 ha Sanagasta fire, October 2017 0.7% of the municipality · 38,092 ha in total · 20 days
  7. 6,181 ha Sanagasta fire, August 2016 1.2% of the municipality · 12,861 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 2,573 ha Chilecito fire, July 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,572 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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