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Wildfires in Punilla

Punilla, Argentina, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 79,993 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 32% 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. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 42 % · 26 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 42 % · 30 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 42 % · 44 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 48 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 24° · 60 % · 49 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 22° · 64 % · 28 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 22° · 80 % · 36 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 26° · 47 % · 48 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

79,993
hectares burned
32 %
of its area
17
fires
2,478
km²

How many times has Punilla burned?

Punilla has burned 17 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Punilla fire, October 2025, with 3,554 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 79,993 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 73,537 hectares, 30 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 8× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
17
fires
7
years with fire
79,993
cumulative ha
73,537
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 Punilla

  1. 3,554 ha Punilla fire, October 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 9,030 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 24,343 ha Punilla fire, September 2024 where it started 9.8% of the municipality · 49,705 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 2,705 ha Punilla fire, October 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,690 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,546 ha Punilla fire, October 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,544 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 2,279 ha Punilla fire, September 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,710 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 4,361 ha Punilla fire, October 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 11,497 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 6,355 ha Punilla fire, 29 September 2020 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 7,524 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 5,398 ha Punilla fire, 24 September 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 56,752 ha in total · 20 days
  9. 10,653 ha Punilla fire, 22 September 2020 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 11,011 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 4,547 ha Punilla fire, 22 September 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 18,834 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 1,811 ha Punilla fire, 22 September 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,809 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,612 ha Punilla fire, August 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,950 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 3,442 ha Ischilín fire, 20 August 2020 1.4% of the municipality · 18,803 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 2,536 ha Punilla fire, September 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,637 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 3,230 ha Punilla fire, September 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 4,317 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 590 ha Colón fire, September 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 4,353 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 1,030 ha Santa María fire, August 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 2,838 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).

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