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Wildfires in San Miguel

San Miguel, Bolivia, has had 50 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 285,183 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% 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.

These figures leave out 2 pages with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 Moderate 34° · 45 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 32° · 54 % · 37 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 31° · 63 % · 52 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Low 32° · 59 % · 57 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 33° · 55 % · 50 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Low 34° · 54 % · 47 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Moderate 33° · 51 % · 54 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 30° · 67 % · 26 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 Miguel: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

285,183
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
50
fires
9,677
km²

How many times has San Miguel burned?

San Miguel has burned 50 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: San Miguel fire, October 2025, with 3,105 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6. 7× 21
  7. 7× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 10× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
50
fires
10
years with fire
285,183
cumulative ha
8 Oct 2025
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 Miguel

  1. 3,105 ha San Miguel fire, October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,080 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 5,453 ha San Miguel fire, September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,415 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 5,691 ha San Miguel fire, July 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,669 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 3,827 ha San Miguel fire, 20 September 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,975 ha in total · 25 days
  5. 2,934 ha San Miguel fire, 5 September 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,644 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 4,269 ha San Miguel fire, 4 September 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,252 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 4,442 ha San Miguel fire, 30 August 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,477 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 3,807 ha San Miguel fire, 28 August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,791 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 25,453 ha San Miguel fire, 26 August 2024 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 35,723 ha in total · 28 days
  10. 15,182 ha San Miguel fire, 13 August 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 15,180 ha in total · 29 days
  11. 979 ha Concepción fire, 5 August 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 21,004 ha in total · 65 days
  12. 748 ha San Miguel fire, 1 August 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 4,421 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 2,843 ha San Miguel fire, July 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,037 ha in total · 25 days
  14. 3,489 ha San Miguel fire, December 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,475 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 3,105 ha San Miguel fire, October 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,080 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 3,594 ha San Miguel fire, September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,569 ha in total · 15 days
  17. 10,685 ha San Miguel fire, June 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 7,101 ha in total · 54 days
  18. 11,059 ha San Miguel fire, October 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 10,855 ha in total · 25 days
  19. 197 ha San Ignacio fire, 24 October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,759 ha in total · 26 days
  20. 5,522 ha San Miguel fire, 10 September 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,503 ha in total · 22 days
  21. 3,393 ha San Miguel fire, 3 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,383 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 3,693 ha San Ignacio fire, 8 August 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 11,406 ha in total · 17 days
  23. 3,763 ha San Miguel fire, June 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,749 ha in total · 30 days
  24. 21 ha San Ignacio fire, 5 June 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 5,963 ha in total · 38 days
  25. 1,664 ha San Ignacio fire, November 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 9,594 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 10,281 ha San Miguel fire, 27 October 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 10,246 ha in total · 10 days
  27. 5,742 ha San Miguel fire, 10 October 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,717 ha in total · 11 days
  28. 4,242 ha San Miguel fire, 12 September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,226 ha in total · 27 days
  29. 3,928 ha San Miguel fire, 11 September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,182 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 3,167 ha San Miguel fire, August 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,153 ha in total · 13 days
  31. 2,397 ha San Ignacio fire, 24 June 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 3,301 ha in total · 23 days
  32. 494 ha Pailón fire, December 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,443 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 3,415 ha San Miguel fire, November 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,404 ha in total · 13 days
  34. 2,499 ha San Ignacio fire, 2 November 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 10,755 ha in total · 6 days
  35. 3,765 ha San Ignacio fire, 1 November 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 15,986 ha in total · 10 days
  36. 12,197 ha San Miguel fire, 27 October 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 9,784 ha in total · 29 days
  37. 5,371 ha San Miguel fire, 8 October 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,364 ha in total · 7 days
  38. 3,170 ha San Miguel fire, September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,145 ha in total · 9 days
  39. 2,581 ha San Miguel fire, 8 September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,191 ha in total · 24 days
  40. 5,762 ha San Miguel fire, 6 September 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,051 ha in total · 19 days
  41. 32,801 ha San Miguel fire, July 2019 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 113,698 ha in total · 73 days
  42. 643 ha San Ignacio fire, 1 July 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 6,809 ha in total · 3 days
  43. 20,456 ha San Miguel fire, September 2018 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 21,134 ha in total · 36 days
  44. 5,892 ha San Miguel fire, August 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,874 ha in total · 7 days
  45. 2,754 ha San Miguel fire, July 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,199 ha in total · 9 days
  46. 1,056 ha San Ignacio fire, October 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 3,659 ha in total · 12 days
  47. 837 ha San Miguel fire, September 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,233 ha in total · 14 days
  48. 24,477 ha San Miguel fire, August 2017 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 22,270 ha in total · 44 days
  49. 993 ha San Ignacio fire, 4 July 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 12,231 ha in total · 41 days
  50. 7,803 ha San Miguel fire, 25 July 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,785 ha in total · 14 days
  51. 9,373 ha San Miguel fire, 24 July 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 9,462 ha in total · 16 days
  52. 3,050 ha San Miguel fire, 11 July 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,040 ha in total · 27 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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