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Wildfires in El Carmen

El Carmen, Chile, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 18,792 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% 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. Sat 24 Very low 20° · 48 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 46 % · 30 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 52 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 61 % · 39 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 23° · 55 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 21° · 75 % · 45 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

18,792
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
4
fires
668
km²

How many times has El Carmen burned?

El Carmen has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: El Carmen fire, March 2026, with 14,735 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 18,792 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,202 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
4
years with fire
18,792
cumulative ha
15,202
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 El Carmen

  1. 14,735 ha El Carmen fire, March 2026 where it started 22% of the municipality · 18,891 ha in total · 22 days
  2. 1,075 ha El Carmen fire, April 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,921 ha El Carmen fire, March 2021 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 1,319 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 1,061 ha El Carmen fire, March 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,194 ha in total · 9 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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