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Wildfires in Cabezas

Cabezas, Bolivia, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 46,373 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Sat 24 Low 34° · 44 % · 58 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 22° · 61 % · 43 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 25° · 45 % · 34 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 60 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 85 % · 35 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 49 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 50 % · 26 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

46,373
hectares burned
9.2 %
of its area
8
fires
5,047
km²

How many times has Cabezas burned?

Cabezas has burned 8 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2022 and 2024. The most recent: Cabezas fire, September 2024, with 3,653 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 46,373 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 40,987 hectares, 8.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
4
years with fire
46,373
cumulative ha
40,987
distinct ha

Fires larger than 3,000 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 Bolivia →

Fires that entered Cabezas

  1. 3,653 ha Cabezas fire, September 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,629 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 165 ha Gutiérrez fire, 24 November 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 6,831 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 3,398 ha Cabezas fire, November 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,381 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 6,620 ha Cabezas fire, November 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 6,738 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 7,645 ha Cabezas fire, 25 September 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 7,596 ha in total · 30 days
  6. 17,705 ha Cabezas fire, 23 September 2020 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 17,612 ha in total · 28 days
  7. 5,284 ha Postrervalle fire, September 2020 1.0% of the municipality · 61,164 ha in total · 34 days
  8. 1,903 ha Samaipata fire, October 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 4,519 ha in total · 8 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).

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