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Wildfires in Río Seco

Río Seco, Argentina, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 37,862 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.7% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 4 Very low 25° · 54 % · 59 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Low 27° · 39 % · 29 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Low 30° · 52 % · 46 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 23° · 44 % · 54 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 23° · 47 % · 30 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Low 26° · 44 % · 48 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Low 28° · 46 % · 38 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 36 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 Río Seco: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

37,862
hectares burned
5.7 %
of its area
17
fires
6,695
km²

How many times has Río Seco burned?

Río Seco has burned 17 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Río Seco fire, December 2025, with 329 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 37,862 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 32,966 hectares, 4.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
17
fires
9
years with fire
37,862
cumulative ha
32,966
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 Río Seco

  1. 329 ha Río Seco fire, December 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,883 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,647 ha Río Seco fire, January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,639 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 184 ha Tulumba fire, 28 October 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,975 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 230 ha Tulumba fire, 26 October 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,585 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 2,312 ha Río Seco fire, October 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,302 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 3,228 ha Río Seco fire, 18 September 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,223 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,804 ha Río Seco fire, 1 September 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,797 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 1,933 ha Río Seco fire, May 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,962 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,828 ha Río Seco fire, September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,884 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 2,113 ha Río Seco fire, October 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,108 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,554 ha Río Seco fire, November 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,548 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 7,645 ha Río Seco fire, October 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 7,641 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,984 ha Río Seco fire, September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,983 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 3,395 ha Río Seco fire, March 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,391 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 2,073 ha Río Seco fire, November 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,065 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 2,276 ha Río Seco fire, August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,272 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 3,326 ha Río Seco fire, November 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,319 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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