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BO · Bolivia · Chuquisaca · 10,015 inhabitants

Wildfires in Huacareta

Huacareta, Bolivia, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2020: 1,693 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.6% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 11).

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 31 Low 28° · 35 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Moderate 34° · 25 % · 34 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Low 32° · 40 % · 32 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Low 34° · 39 % · 41 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 58 % · 37 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 21° · 69 % · 43 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 25° · 68 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 20° · 65 % · 56 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

1,693
hectares burned
0.6 %
of its area
1
fires
2,981
km²

How many times has Huacareta burned?

Huacareta has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2020. The most recent: Monteagudo fire, November 2020, with 1,693 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
1,693
cumulative ha
3 Nov 2020
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 Huacareta

  1. 1,693 ha Monteagudo fire, November 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 5,304 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).

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