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BO · Bolivia · Santa Cruz · 23,126 inhabitants

Wildfires in Porongo

Porongo, Bolivia, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2022: 3,729 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.9% 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 Low 32° · 55 % · 70 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 60 % · 59 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 24° · 54 % · 50 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 63 % · 29 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 80 % · 48 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 52 % · 46 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 52 % · 33 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 53 % · 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

3,729
hectares burned
3.9 %
of its area
1
fires
945
km²

How many times has Porongo burned?

Porongo has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2022. The most recent: El Torno fire, 6 September 2022, with 3,729 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
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  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
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  10.   25
  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
3,729
cumulative ha
6 Sept 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 Porongo

  1. 3,729 ha El Torno fire, 6 September 2022 4.0% 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).

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