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Wildfires in El Alto

El Alto, Argentina, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 5,580 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Sat 14 Very low 28° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 54 % · 41 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Low 31° · 51 % · 45 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 28° · 59 % · 52 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 22° · 81 % · 21 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 29° · 66 % · 55 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 22° · 95 % · 61 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 23° · 76 % · 32 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in El Alto: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

5,580
hectares burned
2.9 %
of its area
4
fires
1,922
km²

How many times has El Alto burned?

El Alto has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2022. The most recent: Choya fire, October 2022, with 30 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
5,580
cumulative ha
8 Oct 2022
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 El Alto

  1. 30 ha Choya fire, October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,525 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,635 ha El Alto fire, September 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,627 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 908 ha El Alto fire, July 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,521 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 3,006 ha El Alto fire, August 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,136 ha in total · 3 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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