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Wildfires in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico, Bolivia, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2022: 4,435 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.8% 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. Fri 13 Very low 32° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 32° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 33° · 62 % · 33 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Low 35° · 50 % · 45 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Low 34° · 58 % · 54 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Low 33° · 57 % · 53 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Low 35° · 53 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 35° · 67 % · 41 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Puerto Rico: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

4,435
hectares burned
0.8 %
of its area
1
fires
5,284
km²

How many times has Puerto Rico burned?

Puerto Rico has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2022. The most recent: Puerto Rico fire, September 2022, with 4,435 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
4,435
cumulative ha
7 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 Puerto Rico

  1. 4,435 ha Puerto Rico fire, September 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,411 ha in total · 15 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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