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Wildfires in Sanagasta

Sanagasta, Argentina, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 33,057 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% 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. Sat 7 Low 15° · 45 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Low 19° · 43 % · 30 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Low 22° · 43 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Moderate 24° · 35 % · 49 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Moderate 27° · 28 % · 35 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Moderate 29° · 31 % · 52 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Moderate 31° · 33 % · 48 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 23° · 49 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Sanagasta: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

33,057
hectares burned
25 %
of its area
3
fires
1,308
km²

How many times has Sanagasta burned?

Sanagasta has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2024. The most recent: Capital fire, August 2024, with 362 hectares inside the municipality.

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3
fires
3
years with fire
33,057
cumulative ha
2 Aug 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 Sanagasta

  1. 362 ha Capital fire, August 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 31,815 ha in total · 27 days
  2. 25,975 ha Sanagasta fire, October 2017 where it started 20% of the municipality · 38,092 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 6,719 ha Sanagasta fire, August 2016 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 12,861 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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