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Wildfires in Empedrado

Empedrado, Chile, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 53,965 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 95% 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. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 30 % · 37 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 21° · 56 % · 40 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 48 % · 32 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 28° · 31 % · 33 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 57 % · 36 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 24° · 53 % · 34 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 20° · 62 % · 44 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

53,965
hectares burned
95 %
of its area
4
fires
567
km²

How many times has Empedrado burned?

Empedrado has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2018. The most recent: Constitución fire, May 2018, with 467 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 53,965 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 51,831 hectares, 91 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
53,965
cumulative ha
51,831
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 Empedrado

  1. 467 ha Constitución fire, May 2018 0.8% of the municipality · 1,318 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,203 ha Empedrado fire, 18 May 2018 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,201 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,268 ha Empedrado fire, 18 May 2018 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,268 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 51,027 ha San Javier fire, January 2017 90% 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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