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Wildfires in Galvarino

Galvarino, Chile, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 38,478 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 68% 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.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 54 % · 35 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 56 % · 34 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 68 % · 47 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 60 % · 33 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 52 % · 41 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 18° · 49 % · 56 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 17° · 57 % · 39 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 16° · 87 % · 37 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

38,478
hectares burned
68 %
of its area
22
fires
568
km²

How many times has Galvarino burned?

Galvarino has burned 22 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Lumaco fire, February 2025, with 4 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 38,478 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 30,755 hectares, 54 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
22
fires
9
years with fire
38,478
cumulative ha
30,755
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 Galvarino

  1. 4 ha Lumaco fire, February 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,274 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 5,319 ha Galvarino fire, 6 February 2025 where it started 9.4% of the municipality · 5,452 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 1,359 ha Galvarino fire, 5 February 2025 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,629 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,963 ha Galvarino fire, February 2024 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 1,960 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 40 ha Lautaro fire, February 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,677 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 2,013 ha Galvarino fire, 4 February 2023 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 1,460 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 91 ha Cholchol fire, 4 February 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,635 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 8,744 ha Galvarino fire, 3 February 2023 where it started 15% of the municipality · 10,252 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 304 ha Lumaco fire, January 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 16,772 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 1,048 ha Galvarino fire, 22 February 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,047 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 754 ha Galvarino fire, 13 February 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,168 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 4 ha Cholchol fire, 10 February 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 5,240 ha Galvarino fire, 7 February 2022 where it started 9.2% of the municipality · 10,183 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 787 ha Galvarino fire, December 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,386 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 102 ha Traiguén fire, 1 March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 2,282 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 967 ha Traiguén fire, February 2020 1.7% of the municipality · 2,136 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 1,087 ha Galvarino fire, 9 March 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,084 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 1,128 ha Galvarino fire, 6 March 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,526 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 663 ha Traiguén fire, 9 February 2019 1.2% of the municipality · 1,488 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 4,459 ha Temuco fire, February 2019 7.8% of the municipality · 5,942 ha in total · 7 days
  21. 1,750 ha Galvarino fire, March 2018 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,748 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 652 ha Galvarino fire, January 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,232 ha in total · 5 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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