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Wildfires in Arauco

Arauco, Chile, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 4,757 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,000 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 Very low 15° · 60 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 18° · 57 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 59 % · 51 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 71 % · 48 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 57 % · 47 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 55 % · 45 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 74 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 76 % · 32 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

4,757
hectares burned
5.0 %
of its area
3
fires
961
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Arauco

  1. 1,684 ha Nacimiento fire, February 2023 1.8% of the municipality · 111,272 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 1,994 ha Arauco fire, February 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,004 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,080 ha Arauco fire, December 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,078 ha in total · 8 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/La Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile (BCN), OCHA ROLAC (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).