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Wildfires in Ercilla

Ercilla, Chile, has had 25 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 36,357 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 73% 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 15° · 57 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 18° · 47 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 21° · 55 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 68 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 56 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 26° · 52 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 54 % · 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

36,357
hectares burned
73 %
of its area
25
fires
498
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Ercilla

  1. 253 ha Angol fire, January 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 3,957 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,547 ha Ercilla fire, March 2025 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 2,757 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 655 ha Ercilla fire, February 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,251 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 51 ha Victoria fire, 4 February 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,372 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,766 ha Ercilla fire, February 2024 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 1,764 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,477 ha Ercilla fire, March 2023 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 1,473 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 2,171 ha Ercilla fire, 12 February 2023 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 3,889 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 2,297 ha Ercilla fire, 4 February 2023 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 5,013 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 3,318 ha Traiguén fire, 4 February 2023 6.7% of the municipality · 8,056 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 2,126 ha Ercilla fire, 3 February 2023 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 5,946 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 5,614 ha Collipulli fire, 1 February 2023 11% of the municipality · 10,542 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 1,759 ha Ercilla fire, 20 February 2022 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 1,756 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 969 ha Ercilla fire, 18 February 2022 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,358 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 2,588 ha Ercilla fire, 15 February 2022 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 2,581 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 35 ha Victoria fire, February 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,233 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 27 ha Angol fire, 9 February 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,239 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 1,018 ha Ercilla fire, December 2021 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,021 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 2 ha Victoria fire, 22 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,464 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 1,066 ha Ercilla fire, March 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,143 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 825 ha Victoria fire, 1 March 2020 1.6% of the municipality · 2,332 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 1,033 ha Ercilla fire, February 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 1,031 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 151 ha Traiguén fire, January 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 1,933 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 526 ha Ercilla fire, January 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,350 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 1,599 ha Ercilla fire, January 2019 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,841 ha in total · 12 days
  25. 2,483 ha Ercilla fire, January 2018 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 2,480 ha in total · 10 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).