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Wildfires in Apolo

Apolo, Bolivia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 13,430 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

Only fires of 3,000 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. Fri 23 Very low 27° · 39 % · 41 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 47 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 80 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 21° · 69 % · 53 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 71 % · 43 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 85 % · 28 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

13,430
hectares burned
0.9 %
of its area
2
fires
14,322
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Apolo

  1. 5,566 ha Apolo fire, November 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,529 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 7,864 ha Puerto Menor de Rurrenabaque fire, 10 November 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 23,209 ha in total · 12 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/GeoBolivia (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).