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Wildfires in San Joaquín

San Joaquín, Bolivia, has had 59 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 500,364 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 57% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Tue 27 Low 31° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 70 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 65 % · 30 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 34° · 56 % · 32 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 34° · 55 % · 34 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

500,364
hectares burned
57 %
of its area
59
fires
8,730
km²

How many times has San Joaquín burned?

San Joaquín has burned 59 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: San Joaquín fire, October 2026, with 4,541 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 8× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 11× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 16× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
59
fires
11
years with fire
500,364
cumulative ha
4 Oct 2026
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 Joaquín

  1. 4,541 ha San Joaquín fire, October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,519 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 3,438 ha San Joaquín fire, September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,410 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 5,898 ha San Joaquín fire, August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,853 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 9,474 ha San Joaquín fire, September 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 9,397 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 3,438 ha San Joaquín fire, September 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,417 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 129 ha Magdalena fire, 12 September 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 6,622 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 289 ha San Ramón fire, 4 September 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,705 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 7,207 ha San Joaquín fire, 27 August 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 16,538 ha in total · 24 days
  9. 3,805 ha San Joaquín fire, 26 August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,778 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 990 ha San Ramón fire, 20 August 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 26,992 ha in total · 23 days
  11. 1,841 ha San Ramón fire, 19 August 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 6,063 ha in total · 18 days
  12. 3,174 ha San Joaquín fire, 13 August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,148 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 7,272 ha San Joaquín fire, 10 August 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,709 ha in total · 29 days
  14. 4,936 ha Puerto Siles fire, 10 August 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 9,199 ha in total · 36 days
  15. 6,155 ha San Ramón fire, 8 August 2024 0.7% of the municipality · 8,960 ha in total · 20 days
  16. 4,882 ha San Joaquín fire, 4 August 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,845 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 3,158 ha San Joaquín fire, 4 August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,134 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 3,259 ha San Joaquín fire, 3 August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,236 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 22 ha San Ramón fire, 18 July 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,293 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 20 ha San Ramón fire, 15 July 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 5,349 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 3,377 ha San Joaquín fire, 18 October 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,347 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 6,464 ha San Joaquín fire, 6 October 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,415 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 7,476 ha San Joaquín fire, 3 October 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 7,429 ha in total · 15 days
  24. 5,192 ha San Joaquín fire, 3 October 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,152 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 6,990 ha San Joaquín fire, August 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,948 ha in total · 13 days
  26. 6,589 ha San Joaquín fire, September 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,550 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 2,638 ha San Ramón fire, 3 September 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 3,463 ha in total · 10 days
  28. 3,095 ha San Joaquín fire, 29 August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,068 ha in total · 22 days
  29. 13,361 ha San Ramón fire, 27 August 2022 1.5% of the municipality · 20,606 ha in total · 24 days
  30. 46,348 ha San Joaquín fire, 25 August 2022 where it started 5.3% of the municipality · 46,026 ha in total · 27 days
  31. 2,628 ha San Ramón fire, 24 August 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 6,684 ha in total · 14 days
  32. 45,895 ha San Ramón fire, 22 August 2022 5.3% of the municipality · 85,517 ha in total · 29 days
  33. 7,908 ha San Ramón fire, 21 August 2022 0.9% of the municipality · 78,854 ha in total · 30 days
  34. 3,054 ha San Joaquín fire, 14 August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,028 ha in total · 12 days
  35. 8,758 ha San Joaquín fire, 27 July 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,692 ha in total · 7 days
  36. 3,048 ha San Joaquín fire, 8 July 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,830 ha in total · 15 days
  37. 2,761 ha San Joaquín fire, 25 September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,292 ha in total · 10 days
  38. 15,799 ha San Joaquín fire, 18 September 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 15,666 ha in total · 15 days
  39. 3,399 ha San Joaquín fire, 2 September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,372 ha in total · 5 days
  40. 4,849 ha San Joaquín fire, August 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,815 ha in total · 6 days
  41. 2,577 ha San Ramón fire, 16 September 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 4,546 ha in total · 11 days
  42. 29,864 ha San Joaquín fire, 23 August 2020 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 65,508 ha in total · 43 days
  43. 88,218 ha San Joaquín fire, 15 August 2020 where it started 10% of the municipality · 87,559 ha in total · 45 days
  44. 340 ha San Ramón fire, 6 August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 28,090 ha in total · 25 days
  45. 4,925 ha San Joaquín fire, 3 August 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,879 ha in total · 17 days
  46. 4,268 ha San Joaquín fire, September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,231 ha in total · 14 days
  47. 17,403 ha San Ramón fire, 25 July 2019 2.0% of the municipality · 101,140 ha in total · 32 days
  48. 976 ha San Ramón fire, September 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 4,599 ha in total · 9 days
  49. 20,236 ha San Joaquín fire, October 2017 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 20,073 ha in total · 7 days
  50. 1,006 ha San Joaquín fire, 25 July 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,865 ha in total · 13 days
  51. 571 ha San Joaquín fire, 22 July 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,283 ha in total · 15 days
  52. 25 ha San Ramón fire, 14 August 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 4,549 ha in total · 20 days
  53. 4,528 ha San Joaquín fire, 14 August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,402 ha in total · 15 days
  54. 28,020 ha San Joaquín fire, 12 August 2016 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 27,782 ha in total · 22 days
  55. 4,554 ha San Joaquín fire, 3 August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,619 ha in total · 6 days
  56. 5,907 ha San Ramón fire, 31 July 2016 0.7% of the municipality · 20,114 ha in total · 10 days
  57. 8,228 ha San Joaquín fire, 29 July 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 8,169 ha in total · 11 days
  58. 630 ha San Ramón fire, 22 July 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 3,454 ha in total · 18 days
  59. 4,530 ha San Joaquín fire, 17 July 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,521 ha in total · 19 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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