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Wildfires in San Rafael

San Rafael, Argentina, has had 26 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 79,192 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.5% 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. Wed 11 Very low 27° · 30 % · 35 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Low 28° · 30 % · 32 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Moderate 30° · 26 % · 55 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Moderate 24° · 33 % · 43 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Moderate 25° · 34 % · 48 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 19° · 73 % · 51 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 16° · 53 % · 34 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 16° · 64 % · 31 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 San Rafael: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

79,192
hectares burned
2.5 %
of its area
26
fires
31,420
km²

How many times has San Rafael burned?

San Rafael has burned 26 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: San Rafael fire, September 2026, with 2,560 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 79,192 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 71,464 hectares, 2.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 7× 17
  3. 7× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 4× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
26
fires
8
years with fire
79,192
cumulative ha
71,464
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 San Rafael

  1. 2,560 ha San Rafael fire, September 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,568 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 3,283 ha San Rafael fire, December 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,243 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,734 ha San Rafael fire, August 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,739 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 3,664 ha San Rafael fire, July 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,650 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,751 ha San Rafael fire, November 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,744 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 3,471 ha San Rafael fire, 11 September 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,462 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 1,508 ha San Rafael fire, 1 September 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,502 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,857 ha San Rafael fire, July 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,845 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,741 ha San Rafael fire, August 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,734 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 5,009 ha San Rafael fire, February 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,970 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,852 ha San Rafael fire, October 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,853 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 2,567 ha San Rafael fire, September 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,541 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,786 ha San Rafael fire, August 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,768 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 8,010 ha San Rafael fire, 9 January 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,996 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 4,446 ha San Rafael fire, 7 January 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 4,460 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 8,305 ha San Rafael fire, 5 January 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 8,847 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 4,061 ha San Rafael fire, 5 January 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,567 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 6,918 ha General Alvear fire, 31 December 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 82,552 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 1,657 ha San Rafael fire, September 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,650 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 2,306 ha San Rafael fire, August 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,301 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 1,648 ha San Rafael fire, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,643 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 2,534 ha San Rafael fire, 22 January 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,507 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 1,637 ha San Rafael fire, 21 January 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,620 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 70 ha Malargüe fire, 21 January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,573 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 1,609 ha San Rafael fire, December 2016 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,739 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 2,209 ha San Rafael fire, September 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,216 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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