Wildfires in Samaipata
Samaipata, Bolivia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 11,118 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.7% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).
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 28° · 50 % · 69 km/h
- Sat 24 Low 28° · 51 % · 62 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 20° · 71 % · 54 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 20° · 55 % · 36 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 21° · 63 % · 45 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 16° · 77 % · 39 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 21° · 58 % · 40 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 19° · 80 % · 33 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
- 11,118
- hectares burned
- 5.7 %
- of its area
- 3
- fires
- 1,937
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Samaipata
- 4,943 ha Samaipata fire, October 2020 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 6,271 ha in total · 10 days
- 3,533 ha Samaipata fire, September 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,511 ha in total · 5 days
- 2,642 ha Samaipata fire, October 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,519 ha in total · 8 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).