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CL · Chile · Región de Ñuble · 26,172 inhabitants

Wildfires in Chillán Viejo

Chillán Viejo, Chile, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 2,325 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 Moderate 28° · 50 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 22° · 58 % · 55 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 21° · 60 % · 43 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 22° · 52 % · 36 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 22° · 52 % · 31 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 19° · 77 % · 39 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 22° · 49 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 20° · 45 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Chillán Viejo: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,325
hectares burned
8.8 %
of its area
3
fires
264
km²

How many times has Chillán Viejo burned?

Chillán Viejo has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2020 and 2023. The most recent: Chillán fire, February 2023, with 284 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
2,325
cumulative ha
2 Feb 2023
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 Chillán Viejo

  1. 1,488 ha Chillán Viejo fire, February 2023 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 2,050 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 284 ha Chillán fire, February 2023 1.1% of the municipality · 1,449 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,086 ha Chillán Viejo fire, January 2020 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 1,266 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 956 ha Chillán Viejo fire, April 2018 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,015 ha in total · 2 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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