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Wildfires in Yapacaní

Yapacaní, Bolivia, has had 29 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 196,604 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Mon 26 Low 25° · 50 % · 48 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 26° · 56 % · 20 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 69 % · 39 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 59 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 58 % · 44 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 69 % · 34 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

196,604
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
29
fires
9,675
km²

How many times has Yapacaní burned?

Yapacaní has burned 29 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Yapacaní fire, 24 September 2025, with 6,088 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 196,604 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 151,315 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 6× 23
  9. 6× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
29
fires
8
years with fire
196,604
cumulative ha
151,315
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 Yapacaní

  1. 6,088 ha Yapacaní fire, 24 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,052 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 6,043 ha Yapacaní fire, 20 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,003 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 10 ha San Juan fire, September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,829 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 26,211 ha Yapacaní fire, 20 September 2024 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 26,148 ha in total · 31 days
  5. 5,956 ha Yapacaní fire, 19 September 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,134 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 3,248 ha Yapacaní fire, 5 September 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,240 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 21,067 ha Yapacaní fire, 3 September 2024 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 20,994 ha in total · 36 days
  8. 4,394 ha Yapacaní fire, August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,380 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 13,292 ha Yapacaní fire, July 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 13,294 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 351 ha Chimoré fire, November 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 12,957 ha in total · 16 days
  11. 5,939 ha Yapacaní fire, 10 October 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,902 ha in total · 14 days
  12. 17,919 ha Yapacaní fire, 9 October 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 17,823 ha in total · 18 days
  13. 10,573 ha Yapacaní fire, 3 October 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 10,511 ha in total · 23 days
  14. 5,757 ha Yapacaní fire, 24 September 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,720 ha in total · 19 days
  15. 3,482 ha Yapacaní fire, 17 September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,461 ha in total · 19 days
  16. 5,718 ha Yapacaní fire, 17 September 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,701 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 3,080 ha Yapacaní fire, 5 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,074 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 168 ha Santa Rosa fire, 27 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 19,908 ha in total · 18 days
  19. 3,114 ha Yapacaní fire, September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,110 ha in total · 10 days
  20. 3,158 ha Yapacaní fire, 3 November 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,137 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 4,594 ha Yapacaní fire, 1 November 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,570 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 3,556 ha Yapacaní fire, 31 October 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,532 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 8,422 ha Yapacaní fire, 19 October 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 8,405 ha in total · 21 days
  24. 6,493 ha Yapacaní fire, 28 October 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,456 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 3,197 ha Yapacaní fire, 23 October 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,176 ha in total · 14 days
  26. 6,364 ha Yapacaní fire, 22 September 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,347 ha in total · 10 days
  27. 11,517 ha Yapacaní fire, 19 September 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 11,445 ha in total · 16 days
  28. 3,476 ha Yapacaní fire, September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,464 ha in total · 11 days
  29. 3,416 ha Yapacaní fire, August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,396 ha in total · 6 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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