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Wildfires in Trinidad

Trinidad, Bolivia, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 45,341 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 24% 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 Very low 29° · 56 % · 28 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 60 % · 34 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 29° · 56 % · 30 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 33° · 66 % · 39 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 34° · 55 % · 32 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Low 34° · 56 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

45,341
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
10
fires
1,911
km²

How many times has Trinidad burned?

Trinidad has burned 10 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2024. The most recent: Trinidad fire, 30 August 2024, with 4,828 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 45,341 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 32,766 hectares, 17 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 4× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
10
fires
5
years with fire
45,341
cumulative ha
32,766
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 Trinidad

  1. 4,828 ha Trinidad fire, 30 August 2024 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 4,800 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 11,289 ha Trinidad fire, 26 August 2024 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 11,329 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 3,350 ha Trinidad fire, September 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,332 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 1,045 ha San Javier fire, 2 September 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 6,424 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 6,038 ha Trinidad fire, August 2022 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 8,736 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 6,179 ha Trinidad fire, July 2022 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 6,208 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 4,706 ha Trinidad fire, October 2020 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 4,678 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 3,042 ha Trinidad fire, September 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,734 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 3,987 ha Trinidad fire, September 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 3,963 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 877 ha San Javier fire, 5 September 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 4,158 ha in total · 15 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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