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Wildfires in Picunches

Picunches, Argentina, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 20,522 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.4% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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 31 Moderate 23° · 30 % · 55 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Moderate 19° · 29 % · 58 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Moderate 22° · 23 % · 45 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Low 15° · 37 % · 71 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Moderate 21° · 15 % · 52 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Moderate 21° · 22 % · 50 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 16° · 51 % · 41 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

20,522
hectares burned
3.4 %
of its area
7
fires
6,053
km²

How many times has Picunches burned?

Picunches has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Picunches fire, March 2024, with 2,290 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
5
years with fire
20,522
cumulative ha
7 Mar 2024
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 Picunches

  1. 2,290 ha Picunches fire, March 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,288 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,524 ha Picunches fire, February 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,518 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,829 ha Picunches fire, August 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,826 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 8,195 ha Picunches fire, April 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 8,199 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 1,935 ha Picunches fire, January 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,936 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,907 ha Picunches fire, January 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,909 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 2,843 ha Picunches fire, February 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,840 ha in total · 2 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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