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Wildfires in Vallegrande

Vallegrande, Bolivia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 52,912 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 Low 29° · 36 % · 53 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 26° · 55 % · 35 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 17° · 83 % · 32 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 17° · 60 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 97 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 66 % · 29 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 79 % · 29 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

52,912
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
5
fires
3,236
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Vallegrande

  1. 5 ha Gutiérrez fire, 24 November 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 6,831 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 5,186 ha Vallegrande fire, 24 November 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 5,155 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 3,407 ha Vallegrande fire, 2 November 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,385 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 3,282 ha Vallegrande fire, September 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,261 ha in total · 21 days
  5. 41,033 ha Postrervalle fire, September 2020 13% of the municipality · 61,164 ha in total · 29 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).