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Wildfires in Charagua

Charagua, Bolivia, has had 28 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 414,411 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Sun 25 Very low 23° · 63 % · 45 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 44 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 76 % · 34 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 51 % · 32 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 46 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 32° · 41 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 69 % · 30 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

414,411
hectares burned
5.8 %
of its area
28
fires
71,273
km²

How many times has Charagua burned?

Charagua has burned 28 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Roboré fire, July 2024, with 883 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 414,411 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 380,644 hectares, 5.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 20× 19
  5.   20
  6. 4× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
28
fires
4
years with fire
414,411
cumulative ha
380,644
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 Charagua

  1. 883 ha Roboré fire, July 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 50,246 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 3,096 ha Charagua fire, January 2024 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,093 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 3,400 ha Charagua fire, August 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 4,380 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 7,429 ha San José fire, 19 August 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 38,531 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 135,814 ha Roboré fire, 17 August 2021 1.9% of the municipality · 162,737 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 126 ha Roboré fire, 1 August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 12,210 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 310 ha San José fire, 23 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,456 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 16 ha El Carmen Rivero Tórrez fire, 15 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 10,202 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 17,381 ha Charagua fire, 15 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 35,099 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 7,996 ha Charagua fire, 15 September 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,970 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 6,314 ha Charagua fire, 10 September 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,291 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 3,331 ha Charagua fire, 9 September 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,325 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 3,558 ha Charagua fire, 9 September 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,551 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 16,362 ha Charagua fire, 8 September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 16,335 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 3,171 ha Charagua fire, 6 September 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,164 ha in total · 19 days
  16. 3,432 ha Charagua fire, 6 September 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,413 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 14,511 ha Charagua fire, 29 August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 49,382 ha in total · 27 days
  18. 3,214 ha Charagua fire, 29 August 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,208 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 38,601 ha Charagua fire, 28 August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 38,468 ha in total · 28 days
  20. 2,501 ha San José fire, 24 August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 55,441 ha in total · 25 days
  21. 3,704 ha Charagua fire, 19 August 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,687 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 10,235 ha Charagua fire, 18 August 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 10,192 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 35,930 ha Charagua fire, 18 August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 35,929 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 68,722 ha Roboré fire, 6 August 2019 1.0% of the municipality · 73,444 ha in total · 26 days
  25. 15,936 ha Charagua fire, 1 August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 16,206 ha in total · 19 days
  26. 12 ha El Carmen Rivero Tórrez fire, 28 July 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 58,084 ha in total · 34 days
  27. 3,982 ha Charagua fire, September 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,979 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 4,447 ha San José fire, 16 July 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 6,984 ha in total · 19 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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