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Wildfires in Pencahue

Pencahue, Chile, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 5,492 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.7% 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. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 32 % · 32 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 60 % · 28 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 47 % · 33 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 45 % · 34 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 52 % · 31 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 51 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 18° · 55 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 21° · 48 % · 44 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

5,492
hectares burned
5.7 %
of its area
6
fires
957
km²

How many times has Pencahue burned?

Pencahue has burned 6 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Curepto fire, February 2026, with 678 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 5,492 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,461 hectares, 4.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
5
years with fire
5,492
cumulative ha
4,461
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 Pencahue

  1. 678 ha Curepto fire, February 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 1,848 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 907 ha Pencahue fire, January 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,086 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,121 ha Curepto fire, February 2023 2.2% of the municipality · 6,995 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 598 ha Pencahue fire, March 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,101 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 210 ha Maule fire, January 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 5,106 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 977 ha San Javier fire, January 2017 1.0% of the municipality · 192,854 ha in total · 19 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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