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Wildfires in Pilagás

Pilagás, Argentina, has had 60 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 156,328 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 45% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 30 Low 31° · 32 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Low 32° · 35 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 51 % · 45 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 65 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 34° · 55 % · 60 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 69 % · 41 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 45 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

156,328
hectares burned
45 %
of its area
60
fires
3,441
km²

How many times has Pilagás burned?

Pilagás has burned 60 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Pilagás fire, October 2025, with 391 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 28× 20
  6. 7× 21
  7. 10× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 6× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
60
fires
9
years with fire
156,328
cumulative ha
21 Oct 2025
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 Pilagás

  1. 391 ha Pilagás fire, October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,525 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,643 ha Pilagás fire, August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,636 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,967 ha Pilagás fire, October 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,957 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 3,252 ha Pilagás fire, 28 March 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,245 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 6,479 ha Pilagás fire, 11 March 2024 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 6,452 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 5,070 ha Pilcomayo fire, 10 March 2024 1.5% of the municipality · 16,214 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 5,682 ha Pilagás fire, 8 March 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 6,275 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 1,556 ha Pilcomayo fire, 17 February 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 2,621 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 1,959 ha Pilagás fire, October 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,051 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,602 ha Pilagás fire, August 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,596 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,973 ha Pilagás fire, 14 September 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,965 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 1,378 ha Pilagás fire, 8 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,608 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 1,337 ha Patiño fire, 5 September 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 2,509 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 2,825 ha Pilagás fire, February 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,901 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 3,735 ha Pilagás fire, 19 January 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,802 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 2,394 ha Pilagás fire, 13 January 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,402 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 5,911 ha Pilagás fire, 9 January 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,875 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 2,216 ha Pilagás fire, 7 January 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,352 ha in total · 20 days
  19. 9,561 ha Pilagás fire, 7 January 2022 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 12,841 ha in total · 14 days
  20. 1,315 ha Pilcomayo fire, 5 January 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 81,287 ha in total · 29 days
  21. 345 ha Pilcomayo fire, 27 December 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 1,514 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 2,117 ha Pilagás fire, 26 December 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,109 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 1,643 ha Pilagás fire, 25 December 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,634 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 1,680 ha Pilagás fire, 24 December 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,675 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 2,830 ha Pilagás fire, 20 December 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,852 ha in total · 13 days
  26. 1,974 ha Pilagás fire, 19 December 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,966 ha in total · 14 days
  27. 1,847 ha Pilagás fire, August 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,840 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 4,628 ha Pilagás fire, 26 October 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 4,610 ha in total · 13 days
  29. 4,304 ha Pilagás fire, 8 October 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,282 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 678 ha Patiño fire, 30 September 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 5,923 ha in total · 13 days
  31. 1,802 ha Pilagás fire, 30 September 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,797 ha in total · 8 days
  32. 3,103 ha Pilagás fire, 25 September 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,091 ha in total · 8 days
  33. 2,292 ha Pilagás fire, 25 September 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,479 ha in total · 7 days
  34. 6,198 ha Pilagás fire, 24 September 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 6,183 ha in total · 13 days
  35. 2,415 ha Pilagás fire, 22 September 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,404 ha in total · 11 days
  36. 32 ha Pirané fire, 19 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 13,234 ha in total · 20 days
  37. 706 ha Patiño fire, 19 September 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 58,085 ha in total · 26 days
  38. 5,958 ha Pilagás fire, 19 September 2020 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,933 ha in total · 13 days
  39. 1,608 ha Pilagás fire, 27 August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,603 ha in total · 2 days
  40. 1,657 ha Pilagás fire, 24 August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,649 ha in total · 6 days
  41. 3,330 ha Pilagás fire, 21 August 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,315 ha in total · 10 days
  42. 10,015 ha Pilagás fire, 20 August 2020 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 9,964 ha in total · 10 days
  43. 613 ha Pilagás fire, 19 August 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,694 ha in total · 11 days
  44. 1,216 ha Patiño fire, 9 August 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 2,099 ha in total · 3 days
  45. 2,028 ha Pilagás fire, 7 August 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,015 ha in total · 5 days
  46. 3,027 ha Pilagás fire, 29 July 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,427 ha in total · 16 days
  47. 3,237 ha Pilagás fire, 1 July 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,229 ha in total · 5 days
  48. 2,408 ha Pilagás fire, 15 May 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,397 ha in total · 7 days
  49. 1,921 ha Pilagás fire, 9 May 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,912 ha in total · 2 days
  50. 1,691 ha Pilagás fire, 26 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,728 ha in total · 3 days
  51. 1,126 ha Pilcomayo fire, 22 April 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 1,998 ha in total · 7 days
  52. 1,510 ha Pilagás fire, 18 April 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,506 ha in total · 11 days
  53. 16 ha Pilcomayo fire, 18 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,684 ha in total · 14 days
  54. 1,771 ha Pilagás fire, 17 March 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,764 ha in total · 2 days
  55. 2,750 ha Pilagás fire, 1 March 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,742 ha in total · 12 days
  56. 1,531 ha Pilagás fire, March 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,524 ha in total · 5 days
  57. 1,556 ha Pilagás fire, February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,549 ha in total · 12 days
  58. 1,539 ha Pilagás fire, August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,533 ha in total · 5 days
  59. 2,545 ha Pilagás fire, 23 September 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,535 ha in total · 7 days
  60. 2,433 ha Pilagás fire, 22 September 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,423 ha in total · 7 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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