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BO · Bolivia · Santa Cruz · 55,697 inhabitants

Wildfires in El Torno

El Torno, Bolivia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 10,374 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 Low 29° · 56 % · 78 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 29° · 53 % · 76 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 22° · 59 % · 45 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 23° · 47 % · 46 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 62 % · 42 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 89 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 52 % · 48 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

10,374
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
2
fires
976
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered El Torno

  1. 10,131 ha El Torno fire, 6 September 2022 where it started 10% of the municipality · 10,901 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 243 ha El Torno fire, 6 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,993 ha in total · 7 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).