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BO · Bolivia · Santa Cruz · 18,942 inhabitants

Wildfires in San Carlos

San Carlos, Bolivia, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,516 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.9% 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
  1. Thu 12 Moderate 33° · 53 % · 37 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Very low 32° · 66 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Very low 31° · 66 % · 36 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Very low 29° · 76 % · 40 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 70 % · 62 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Very low 31° · 74 % · 50 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Very low 31° · 73 % · 39 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Very low 32° · 69 % · 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 San Carlos: hourly forecast Today, 18 µg/m³ of PM2.5 (×1.2 the WHO guideline) · Wildfire smoke episode

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,516
hectares burned
2.9 %
of its area
1
fires
1,224
km²

How many times has San Carlos burned?

San Carlos has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2016. The most recent: San Carlos fire, 21 August 2016, with 3,516 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
3,516
cumulative ha
21 Aug 2016
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 San Carlos

  1. 3,516 ha San Carlos fire, 21 August 2016 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 3,499 ha in total · 7 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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