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Wildfires in Pichi Mahuída

Pichi Mahuída, Argentina, has had 35 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 286,705 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 30).

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. Mon 9 High 31° · 22 % · 53 km/h
  2. Tue 10 High 32° · 31 % · 45 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Moderate 36° · 15 % · 39 km/h
  4. Thu 12 High 33° · 29 % · 56 km/h
  5. Fri 13 High 25° · 33 % · 55 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Moderate 28° · 20 % · 45 km/h
  7. Sun 15 High 28° · 25 % · 41 km/h
  8. Mon 16 High 28° · 31 % · 39 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 Pichi Mahuída: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

286,705
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
35
fires
15,706
km²

How many times has Pichi Mahuída burned?

Pichi Mahuída has burned 35 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Avellaneda fire, February 2023, with 198 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 286,705 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 276,297 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 17× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 6× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
35
fires
6
years with fire
286,705
cumulative ha
276,297
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 Pichi Mahuída

  1. 198 ha Avellaneda fire, February 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,601 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 5,622 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, January 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,706 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,615 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 15 January 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,617 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 4,599 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 14 January 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,602 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 2,720 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,721 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 7,810 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 26 February 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,754 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 3,951 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 18 February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,932 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 10,055 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, January 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 10,129 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 2,145 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 28 March 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,145 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 2,103 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 27 March 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,097 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 3,546 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 30 January 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,551 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 1,927 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 29 January 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,930 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 2,943 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 13 January 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,921 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 3,143 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 12 January 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,676 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 2,797 ha Patagones fire, February 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 6,108 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 2,417 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 17 February 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,407 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 15,291 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 9 February 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 15,233 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 2,379 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, January 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,364 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 8,537 ha Patagones fire, 31 December 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 14,817 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 1,762 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 31 December 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,756 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 3,046 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 31 December 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,043 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 177 ha Patagones fire, 31 December 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 8,839 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 1,926 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 31 December 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,922 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 10,260 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 31 December 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 10,661 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 2,938 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 31 December 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,926 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 2,039 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 31 December 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,034 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 3,485 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 31 December 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,485 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 2,228 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 30 December 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,217 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 2,543 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 30 December 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,537 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 4,492 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 30 December 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,479 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 817 ha Patagones fire, 30 December 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,506 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 117,850 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 21 December 2016 where it started 7.5% of the municipality · 116,239 ha in total · 15 days
  33. 43,615 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, 18 December 2016 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 166,565 ha in total · 17 days
  34. 2,111 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, November 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,107 ha in total · 2 days
  35. 2,618 ha Pichi Mahuída fire, April 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,902 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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