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BO · Bolivia · Chuquisaca · 5,654 inhabitants

Wildfires in Macharetí

Macharetí, Bolivia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 14,867 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.9% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

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. Mon 2 Moderate 37° · 36 % · 35 km/h
  2. Tue 3 High 39° · 33 % · 65 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Moderate 41° · 26 % · 47 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 55 % · 46 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Low 34° · 45 % · 52 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Low 27° · 35 % · 70 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Low 25° · 35 % · 39 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Low 28° · 28 % · 32 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

14,867
hectares burned
1.9 %
of its area
2
fires
8,013
km²

How many times has Macharetí burned?

Macharetí has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2020. The most recent: Macharetí fire, 30 September 2020, with 5,472 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
14,867
cumulative ha
30 Sept 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 Macharetí

  1. 5,472 ha Macharetí fire, 30 September 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,249 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 9,395 ha Macharetí fire, 21 September 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 9,347 ha in total · 24 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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