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Wildfires in Metán

Metán, Argentina, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 35,293 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.7% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

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. Thu 22 Moderate 36° · 29 % · 39 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Moderate 29° · 48 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Low 21° · 63 % · 52 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Low 20° · 45 % · 41 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Moderate 23° · 37 % · 37 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Moderate 25° · 35 % · 37 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Moderate 25° · 40 % · 28 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 58 % · 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

35,293
hectares burned
6.7 %
of its area
15
fires
5,284
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Metán

  1. 2,263 ha Metán fire, September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,256 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,981 ha Metán fire, October 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,972 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,676 ha Metán fire, August 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,670 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,256 ha Metán fire, July 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,565 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 2,159 ha Metán fire, October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,147 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 7,145 ha Metán fire, September 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 8,835 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 1,388 ha Metán fire, January 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,640 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,169 ha Metán fire, 25 November 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,119 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 1,715 ha Metán fire, 12 November 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,709 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 1,250 ha Metán fire, August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,203 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 1,537 ha Metán fire, October 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,275 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 2,685 ha Metán fire, 29 September 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,670 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 2,928 ha Metán fire, 21 September 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,912 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 2,863 ha Metán fire, August 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,848 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 2,278 ha Metán fire, November 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,269 ha in total · 6 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).