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Wildfires in Cuatro Cañadas

Cuatro Cañadas, Bolivia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 17,722 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.0% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 28° · 64 % · 53 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 26° · 49 % · 39 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 30° · 50 % · 22 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 64 % · 40 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 74 % · 35 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 68 % · 34 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

17,722
hectares burned
4.0 %
of its area
6
fires
4,481
km²

How many times has Cuatro Cañadas burned?

Cuatro Cañadas has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2021. The most recent: Cuatro Cañadas fire, July 2021, with 4,374 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
17,722
cumulative ha
17 Jul 2021
most recent

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 Cuatro Cañadas

  1. 4,374 ha Cuatro Cañadas fire, July 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,353 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 3,132 ha Cuatro Cañadas fire, August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,117 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 3,037 ha Cuatro Cañadas fire, August 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,023 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 3,591 ha Cuatro Cañadas fire, July 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,572 ha in total · 24 days
  5. 3,550 ha Cuatro Cañadas fire, September 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,577 ha in total · 27 days
  6. 37 ha San Miguel fire, 25 July 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 7,785 ha in total · 14 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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