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Wildfires in Melipilla

Melipilla, Chile, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,460 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.7% 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. Fri 23 Very low 19° · 52 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 19° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 20° · 60 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 51 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 56 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 64 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 23° · 61 % · 36 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

10,460
hectares burned
7.7 %
of its area
8
fires
1,354
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Melipilla

  1. 93 ha María Pinto fire, May 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,067 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 29 ha San Antonio fire, December 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,186 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 655 ha Curacaví fire, December 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 2,137 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,320 ha María Pinto fire, December 2023 1.0% of the municipality · 2,848 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 476 ha María Pinto fire, April 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 1,074 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,042 ha Melipilla fire, December 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,038 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 5,029 ha San Pedro fire, January 2017 3.7% of the municipality · 9,675 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 1,816 ha Melipilla fire, December 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,810 ha in total · 2 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).