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Wildfires in Chanco

Chanco, Chile, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 7,923 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% 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 16° · 54 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 17° · 60 % · 38 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 36 % · 29 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 75 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 63 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 62 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 72 % · 40 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 66 % · 31 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

7,923
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
3
fires
528
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Chanco

  1. 2,262 ha Cauquenes fire, 2 February 2023 4.3% of the municipality · 6,199 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 20 ha Constitución fire, June 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,126 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 5,641 ha San Javier fire, January 2017 11% of the municipality · 192,854 ha in total · 14 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).