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Wildfires in Utracán

Utracán, Argentina, has had 39 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 208,938 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 23° · 47 % · 40 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 37 % · 25 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 26° · 35 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 32 % · 43 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 23° · 43 % · 35 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 23° · 37 % · 52 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 21° · 59 % · 49 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

208,938
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
39
fires
12,905
km²

How many times has Utracán burned?

Utracán has burned 39 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Utracán fire, January 2026, with 2,258 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 12× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 10× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 5× 22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
39
fires
9
years with fire
208,938
cumulative ha
14 Jan 2026
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 Utracán

  1. 2,258 ha Utracán fire, January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,253 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,516 ha Utracán fire, December 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,514 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,517 ha Utracán fire, January 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,513 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,650 ha Utracán fire, December 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,672 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 4,414 ha Utracán fire, February 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,420 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 4,559 ha Utracán fire, January 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,543 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 3,914 ha Utracán fire, December 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,905 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,911 ha Utracán fire, October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,913 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 3,542 ha Toay fire, 12 September 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 4,508 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 944 ha Utracán fire, August 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,154 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 994 ha Utracán fire, January 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,539 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,741 ha Utracán fire, 21 February 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,737 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 2,130 ha Utracán fire, 19 February 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,127 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 3,558 ha Utracán fire, December 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,552 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 5,458 ha Utracán fire, October 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,455 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 1,889 ha Utracán fire, March 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,887 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 65,336 ha Utracán fire, 27 January 2018 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 71,910 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 19,407 ha Utracán fire, 24 January 2018 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 19,424 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 1,809 ha Utracán fire, 21 January 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,802 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 2,175 ha Utracán fire, 20 January 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,166 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 2,173 ha Utracán fire, 20 January 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,162 ha in total · 1 day
  22. 6,794 ha Utracán fire, 18 January 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,758 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 8,188 ha Utracán fire, 17 January 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,157 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 3,673 ha Utracán fire, 12 January 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,666 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 839 ha Atreucó fire, 10 January 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 3,415 ha in total · 1 day
  26. 4,166 ha Utracán fire, December 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,164 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 2,238 ha Utracán fire, March 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,226 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 4,201 ha Utracán fire, 22 December 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,186 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 170 ha Loventué fire, 21 December 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,223 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 11,764 ha Utracán fire, 21 December 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 11,767 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 2,477 ha Utracán fire, 21 December 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,477 ha in total · 1 day
  32. 9,553 ha Utracán fire, 21 December 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 9,527 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 4,859 ha Utracán fire, 21 December 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,849 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 116 ha Loventué fire, 20 December 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,792 ha in total · 3 days
  35. 4,110 ha Utracán fire, 20 December 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,116 ha in total · 5 days
  36. 1,930 ha Utracán fire, 18 December 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,241 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 3,470 ha Utracán fire, 15 December 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,457 ha in total · 3 days
  38. 5,754 ha Utracán fire, 20 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,721 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 1,737 ha Utracán fire, 13 January 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,734 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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