Wildfires in Postrervalle
Postrervalle, Bolivia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 18,707 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).
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- Fri 23 Low 29° · 40 % · 76 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 28° · 45 % · 45 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 18° · 80 % · 51 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 18° · 60 % · 44 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 24° · 54 % · 43 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 14° · 95 % · 35 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 18° · 77 % · 48 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
- 18,707
- hectares burned
- 17 %
- of its area
- 4
- fires
- 1,124
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Postrervalle
- 3,546 ha Postrervalle fire, November 2022 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 3,524 ha in total · 6 days
- 0 ha Vallegrande fire, 24 November 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 5,155 ha in total · 8 days
- 5 ha Samaipata fire, October 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 6,271 ha in total · 10 days
- 15,156 ha Postrervalle fire, September 2020 where it started 13% of the municipality · 61,164 ha in total · 29 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).