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CL · Chile · Región del Bío-Bío · 31,270 inhabitants

Wildfires in Contulmo

Contulmo, Chile, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 8,142 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% 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 14° · 54 % · 38 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 18° · 52 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 21° · 55 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 69 % · 41 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 52 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 31 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 74 % · 40 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 64 % · 36 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

8,142
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
5
fires
639
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Contulmo

  1. 5,042 ha Contulmo fire, February 2023 where it started 7.9% of the municipality · 5,080 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 72 ha Lumaco fire, 1 February 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 7,678 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 1,792 ha Contulmo fire, January 2021 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,786 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 870 ha Contulmo fire, February 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,399 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 366 ha Cañete fire, 22 January 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 2,067 ha in total · 13 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).