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Wildfires in Urubichá

Urubichá, Bolivia, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 1,388,602 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 85% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Thu 22 Very low 32° · 53 % · 30 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Low 31° · 58 % · 45 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Moderate 34° · 47 % · 49 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 53 % · 40 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Low 28° · 53 % · 34 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 46 % · 30 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 76 % · 37 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 73 % · 36 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

1,388,602
hectares burned
85 %
of its area
23
fires
16,432
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Urubichá

  1. 76 ha Ascención de Guarayos fire, September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 9,556 ha in total · 22 days
  2. 4,602 ha Urubichá fire, July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,586 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 3,327 ha Urubichá fire, 16 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,311 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 3,329 ha Urubichá fire, 8 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,312 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 442 ha Ascención de Guarayos fire, July 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 9,206 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 1,142,748 ha San Ignacio fire, 25 June 2024 70% of the municipality · 4,468,196 ha in total · 124 days
  7. 81 ha Ascención de Guarayos fire, June 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,534 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 2 ha Baures fire, 12 November 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 16,136 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 1,044 ha Baures fire, 11 November 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 4,404 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 22,856 ha Urubichá fire, 5 November 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 22,742 ha in total · 16 days
  11. 5,768 ha Urubichá fire, 5 November 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,743 ha in total · 15 days
  12. 23,907 ha Urubichá fire, 3 November 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 23,778 ha in total · 17 days
  13. 3,335 ha Urubichá fire, October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,303 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 16,926 ha Urubichá fire, 15 September 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 17,271 ha in total · 14 days
  15. 4,232 ha Urubichá fire, 2 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 8,978 ha in total · 22 days
  16. 40,835 ha Urubichá fire, August 2022 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 40,539 ha in total · 38 days
  17. 3,524 ha Urubichá fire, 5 October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,495 ha in total · 15 days
  18. 1,735 ha Ascención de Guarayos fire, 5 October 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 7,715 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 5,142 ha Urubichá fire, 4 October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,094 ha in total · 12 days
  20. 8,268 ha Ascención de Guarayos fire, 24 September 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 14,165 ha in total · 22 days
  21. 96,070 ha Urubichá fire, September 2020 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 97,033 ha in total · 35 days
  22. 4 ha Concepción fire, 6 August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 221,128 ha in total · 60 days
  23. 350 ha Concepción fire, 7 September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 4,344 ha in total · 7 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).