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BO · Bolivia · Chuquisaca · 9,611 inhabitants

Wildfires in Villa Vaca Guzmán

Villa Vaca Guzmán, Bolivia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 9,330 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 3 Moderate 34° · 38 % · 49 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 37° · 33 % · 45 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 27° · 51 % · 42 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 52 % · 41 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 62 % · 55 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 24° · 42 % · 43 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Low 27° · 39 % · 40 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Low 29° · 48 % · 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

9,330
hectares burned
2.5 %
of its area
2
fires
3,794
km²

How many times has Villa Vaca Guzmán burned?

Villa Vaca Guzmán has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2022. The most recent: Gutiérrez fire, 18 November 2022, with 601 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
9,330
cumulative ha
18 Nov 2022
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 Villa Vaca Guzmán

  1. 601 ha Gutiérrez fire, 18 November 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 4,157 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 8,729 ha Villa Vaca Guzmán fire, November 2022 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 15,317 ha in total · 19 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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