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CL · Chile · Región de Valparaíso · 16,875 inhabitants

Wildfires in Cartagena

Cartagena, Chile, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 2,488 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 64 % · 31 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 75 % · 31 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 74 % · 27 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 82 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 76 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 65 % · 34 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 20° · 65 % · 33 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 18° · 60 % · 39 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

2,488
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
2
fires
244
km²

How many times has Cartagena burned?

Cartagena has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2024. The most recent: San Antonio fire, December 2024, with 231 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,488
cumulative ha
21 Dec 2024
most recent

Fires larger than 1,000 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 Chile →

Fires that entered Cartagena

  1. 231 ha San Antonio fire, December 2024 1.0% of the municipality · 1,186 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 2,257 ha San Antonio fire, December 2016 9.2% of the municipality · 4,064 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/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).

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