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Wildfires in Los Sauces

Los Sauces, Chile, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 26,440 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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° · 47 % · 33 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 50 % · 30 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 25° · 58 % · 49 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 20° · 50 % · 40 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Low 19° · 40 % · 49 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Low 18° · 49 % · 43 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 15° · 59 % · 54 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

26,440
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
16
fires
851
km²

How many times has Los Sauces burned?

Los Sauces has burned 16 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Angol fire, January 2026, with 124 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 26,440 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 23,747 hectares, 28 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 1× 26
16
fires
6
years with fire
26,440
cumulative ha
23,747
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 Los Sauces

  1. 124 ha Angol fire, January 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,957 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,119 ha Los Sauces fire, March 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,115 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 32 ha Purén fire, February 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,496 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,452 ha Los Sauces fire, January 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,451 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,406 ha Los Sauces fire, March 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,402 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 3,867 ha Los Sauces fire, February 2023 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 3,858 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 772 ha Ercilla fire, 3 February 2023 0.9% of the municipality · 5,946 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 1,660 ha Los Sauces fire, January 2023 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,662 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 753 ha Angol fire, December 2022 0.9% of the municipality · 1,658 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 2,966 ha Los Sauces fire, 16 February 2022 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 5,249 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 1,863 ha Los Sauces fire, 11 February 2022 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,663 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 555 ha Angol fire, 11 February 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 1,981 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 9,113 ha Los Sauces fire, December 2021 where it started 11% of the municipality · 13,252 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 740 ha Los Sauces fire, March 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,121 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 0 ha Traiguén fire, January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,933 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 20 ha Ercilla fire, January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,350 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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