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Wildfires in Pailón

Pailón, Bolivia, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 80,854 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.8% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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 Moderate 34° · 48 % · 66 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 35° · 43 % · 68 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 28° · 57 % · 59 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 27° · 39 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 40 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 65 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 90 % · 37 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

80,854
hectares burned
5.8 %
of its area
21
fires
13,842
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Pailón

  1. 5,116 ha Pailón fire, December 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,083 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 289 ha San José fire, 16 November 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 4,935 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 8,779 ha Pailón fire, August 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,720 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 6,274 ha Pailón fire, September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,236 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 19 ha San Miguel fire, 12 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,226 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 13 ha San Miguel fire, August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,153 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 4,353 ha Pailón fire, July 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,336 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 2,929 ha Pailón fire, December 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,443 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 6,824 ha Pailón fire, October 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,778 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 3,252 ha Pailón fire, September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,232 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 3,040 ha Pailón fire, August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,025 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 3,424 ha Pailón fire, July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,541 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 8,412 ha Pailón fire, October 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,362 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 4 ha San José fire, 1 September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 4,420 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 2 ha San José fire, 20 October 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 4,564 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 3,138 ha Pailón fire, 18 October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,119 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 4,743 ha Pailón fire, 8 October 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,715 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 6,623 ha Pailón fire, 2 October 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,979 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 47 ha Cuatro Cañadas fire, September 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,577 ha in total · 27 days
  20. 13,548 ha Pailón fire, September 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 13,467 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 25 ha San José fire, 12 June 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 33,474 ha in total · 49 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).