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BO · Bolivia · Tarija · 17,341 inhabitants

Wildfires in Padcaya

Padcaya, Bolivia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 11,256 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 24 Very low 20° · 98 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 14° · 74 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 17° · 91 % · 21 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 79 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 70 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 58 % · 24 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

11,256
hectares burned
2.5 %
of its area
2
fires
4,468
km²

How many times has Padcaya burned?

Padcaya has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2022. The most recent: Padcaya fire, October 2022, with 7,965 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
11,256
cumulative ha
28 Oct 2022
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 Padcaya

  1. 7,965 ha Padcaya fire, October 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 7,918 ha in total · 31 days
  2. 3,291 ha Padcaya fire, June 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,279 ha in total · 3 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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