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Wildfires in Puerto Siles

Puerto Siles, Bolivia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 12,700 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 31 Very low 33° · 53 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 34° · 55 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Low 33° · 54 % · 29 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Low 35° · 50 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Low 35° · 50 % · 34 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 72 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 34° · 55 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 86 % · 36 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

12,700
hectares burned
6.1 %
of its area
4
fires
2,099
km²

How many times has Puerto Siles burned?

Puerto Siles has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2024. The most recent: Puerto Siles fire, 19 August 2024, with 4,868 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
12,700
cumulative ha
19 Aug 2024
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 Siles

  1. 4,868 ha Puerto Siles fire, 19 August 2024 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 4,841 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 3,052 ha Puerto Siles fire, 12 August 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,036 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 4,293 ha Puerto Siles fire, 10 August 2024 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 9,199 ha in total · 36 days
  4. 486 ha San Joaquín fire, 25 September 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 3,292 ha in total · 10 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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