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Wildfires in Iruya

Iruya, Argentina, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 3,529 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.0% 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. Fri 23 Very low 24° · 13 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 17° · 75 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 8° · 89 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 10° · 75 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 11° · 72 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 10° · 92 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 11° · 79 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 83 % · 34 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

3,529
hectares burned
1.0 %
of its area
3
fires
3,544
km²

How many times has Iruya burned?

Iruya has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Iruya fire, July 2026, with 1,796 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
3,529
cumulative ha
18 Jul 2026
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 Iruya

  1. 1,796 ha Iruya fire, July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,857 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 216 ha Orán fire, 26 October 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 3,304 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 1,517 ha Iruya fire, October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,508 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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