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Wildfires in Tehuelches

Tehuelches, Argentina, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 19,069 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.3% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).

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 14 Low 28° · 15 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sun 15 High 26° · 20 % · 63 km/h
  3. Mon 16 High 21° · 27 % · 45 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Moderate 17° · 38 % · 34 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 14° · 65 % · 45 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Low 13° · 48 % · 74 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Low 14° · 50 % · 67 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Low 13° · 41 % · 63 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 Tehuelches: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

19,069
hectares burned
1.3 %
of its area
6
fires
14,589
km²

How many times has Tehuelches burned?

Tehuelches has burned 6 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2025. The most recent: Tehuelches fire, 24 January 2025, with 6,344 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,069 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,620 hectares, 1.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
6
fires
2
years with fire
19,069
cumulative ha
16,620
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 Tehuelches

  1. 6,344 ha Tehuelches fire, 24 January 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,354 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 2,276 ha Tehuelches fire, 20 January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,278 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,710 ha Tehuelches fire, 6 March 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,769 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 2,931 ha Tehuelches fire, 5 March 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,934 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 2,631 ha Tehuelches fire, 1 March 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,637 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 2,177 ha Tehuelches fire, February 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,173 ha in total · 5 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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