Wildfires in Penco
Penco, Chile: 4 fires since 2017 burned 17,003 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.6 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. 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- Fri 23 Very low 16° · 54 % · 31 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 18° · 52 % · 39 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 23° · 51 % · 39 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 20° · 67 % · 40 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 22° · 53 % · 44 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 24° · 49 % · 37 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 18° · 70 % · 45 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 21° · 62 % · 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
- 17,003
- hectares burned
- 1.6×
- times its area (some ground burned more than once)
- 4
- fires
- 108
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Penco
- 7,969 ha Concepción fire, January 2026 74% of the municipality · 27,577 ha in total · 9 days
- 2,632 ha Tomé fire, February 2023 24% of the municipality · 39,139 ha in total · 18 days
- 1,934 ha Penco fire, March 2022 where it started 18% of the municipality · 2,550 ha in total · 5 days
- 4,468 ha Florida fire, January 2017 41% of the municipality · 81,000 ha in total · 14 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).