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Wildfires in Cauquenes

Cauquenes, Chile, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 72,139 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% 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. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 35 % · 30 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 23° · 55 % · 26 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 45 % · 33 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 27° · 34 % · 27 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 26° · 43 % · 35 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 25° · 47 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 23° · 54 % · 40 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 23° · 54 % · 35 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

72,139
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
15
fires
2,129
km²

How many times has Cauquenes burned?

Cauquenes has burned 15 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Cauquenes fire, June 2026, with 1,092 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 72,139 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 67,935 hectares, 32 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
15
fires
7
years with fire
72,139
cumulative ha
67,935
distinct ha

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 Cauquenes

  1. 1,092 ha Cauquenes fire, June 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,091 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 1,161 ha Cauquenes fire, December 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,157 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 4,920 ha Cauquenes fire, 3 February 2023 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 5,394 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 174 ha Ninhue fire, February 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 17,412 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 3,944 ha Cauquenes fire, 2 February 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 6,199 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 3,667 ha Cauquenes fire, January 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,652 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 2,395 ha Cauquenes fire, February 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,393 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 648 ha Quirihue fire, May 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 1,252 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 40 ha Quirihue fire, January 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,096 ha Cauquenes fire, November 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,093 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,189 ha Cauquenes fire, February 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,186 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 132 ha Quirihue fire, 26 January 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 11,688 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 2,528 ha Cauquenes fire, 26 January 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,521 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 25,634 ha Cauquenes fire, 18 January 2017 where it started 12% of the municipality · 24,866 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 23,518 ha San Javier fire, January 2017 11% of the municipality · 192,854 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/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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