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Wildfires in Tarija

Tarija, Bolivia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 11,533 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.6% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Fri 23 High 32° · 21 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 26° · 46 % · 46 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 13° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 46 % · 41 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 24° · 36 % · 53 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 15° · 68 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 49 % · 44 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 50 % · 43 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

11,533
hectares burned
5.6 %
of its area
3
fires
2,074
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Tarija

  1. 5,167 ha Tarija fire, October 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 5,154 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 2,330 ha San Lorenzo fire, July 2025 1.1% of the municipality · 3,861 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 4,036 ha San Lorenzo fire, August 2017 2.0% of the municipality · 10,500 ha in total · 5 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).