Wildfires in San Borja
San Borja, Bolivia, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 3,667 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.4% 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- Tue 27 Very low 25° · 65 % · 17 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 24° · 90 % · 30 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 26° · 68 % · 28 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 27° · 75 % · 20 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 30° · 69 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 32° · 60 % · 37 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 34° · 56 % · 31 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 34° · 53 % · 37 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
- 3,667
- hectares burned
- 0.4 %
- of its area
- 4
- fires
- 8,848
- km²
How many times has San Borja burned?
San Borja has burned 4 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2023. The most recent: Puerto Menor de Rurrenabaque fire, 4 November 2023, with 197 hectares inside the municipality.
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- 4
- fires
- 1
- years with fire
- 3,667
- cumulative ha
- 4 Nov 2023
- 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.
Fires that entered San Borja
- 197 ha Puerto Menor de Rurrenabaque fire, 4 November 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 4,789 ha in total · 15 days
- 127 ha San Borja fire, 11 October 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,416 ha in total · 17 days
- 51 ha Puerto Menor de Rurrenabaque fire, 8 October 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 7,829 ha in total · 26 days
- 3,292 ha San Borja fire, 2 October 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,277 ha in total · 4 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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