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Wildfires in San Juan

San Juan, Bolivia, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 33,824 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% 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. Wed 11 Moderate 34° · 47 % · 37 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 32° · 60 % · 32 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 31° · 69 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 32° · 63 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 29° · 89 % · 47 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 32° · 69 % · 61 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 33° · 62 % · 53 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 Juan: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

33,824
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
8
fires
1,595
km²

How many times has San Juan burned?

San Juan has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: San Juan fire, September 2025, with 3,832 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 33,824 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 24,939 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
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  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
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  9. 3× 24
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8
fires
5
years with fire
33,824
cumulative ha
24,939
distinct ha

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 Juan

  1. 3,832 ha San Juan fire, September 2025 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,829 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 1,204 ha Yapacaní fire, 19 September 2024 0.8% of the municipality · 7,074 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 9,073 ha Santa Rosa fire, 19 August 2024 5.7% of the municipality · 13,341 ha in total · 24 days
  4. 28 ha Santa Rosa fire, 13 August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,222 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 2,837 ha Santa Rosa fire, 4 September 2022 1.8% of the municipality · 3,593 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 11,162 ha Santa Rosa fire, 27 August 2022 7.0% of the municipality · 19,908 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 7 ha Yapacaní fire, September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,110 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 5,682 ha Santa Rosa fire, 5 August 2016 3.6% of the municipality · 38,906 ha in total · 24 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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