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Wildfires in Hualqui

Hualqui, Chile, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 36,875 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 68% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 21° · 37 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 30 % · 36 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 20° · 63 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 48 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 27° · 36 % · 37 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 64 % · 42 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 23° · 43 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 66 % · 53 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

36,875
hectares burned
68 %
of its area
14
fires
541
km²

How many times has Hualqui burned?

Hualqui has burned 14 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Concepción fire, January 2026, with 907 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 36,875 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 30,857 hectares, 57 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 4× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
14
fires
6
years with fire
36,875
cumulative ha
30,857
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 Hualqui

  1. 907 ha Concepción fire, January 2026 1.7% of the municipality · 27,577 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 3,210 ha Hualqui fire, 24 March 2025 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 3,202 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,238 ha Hualqui fire, 23 March 2025 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 1,236 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 1,310 ha Hualqui fire, 19 February 2023 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,401 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 17 ha Hualqui fire, 17 February 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 13,271 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 1,134 ha Nacimiento fire, February 2023 2.1% of the municipality · 111,272 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 3,808 ha Hualqui fire, 3 February 2023 where it started 7.0% of the municipality · 4,416 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 1,707 ha Hualqui fire, March 2022 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 3,663 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 2,957 ha Hualqui fire, February 2020 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 2,955 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,400 ha Hualqui fire, January 2020 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,398 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 1,373 ha Hualqui fire, 27 January 2017 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 1,370 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 15,420 ha Hualqui fire, 26 January 2017 where it started 28% of the municipality · 14,653 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 1,280 ha Hualqui fire, 26 January 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,350 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 1,111 ha Florida fire, January 2017 2.0% of the municipality · 81,000 ha in total · 15 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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