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Wildfires in Pichilemu

Pichilemu, Chile, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 10,147 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% 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. Sat 24 Very low 16° · 66 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 18° · 71 % · 37 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 17° · 79 % · 40 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 74 % · 39 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 19° · 74 % · 35 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 81 % · 40 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 82 % · 34 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 78 % · 28 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

10,147
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
4
fires
717
km²

How many times has Pichilemu burned?

Pichilemu has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2019 and 2022. The most recent: Pichilemu fire, December 2022, with 2,139 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,147 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,287 hectares, 13 % 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. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
10,147
cumulative ha
9,287
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 Pichilemu

  1. 2,139 ha Pichilemu fire, December 2022 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,388 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,071 ha Pichilemu fire, July 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,069 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 225 ha Litueche fire, January 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 7,771 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 6,712 ha Marchigüe fire, January 2017 9.4% of the municipality · 39,771 ha in total · 9 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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