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Wildfires in Purén

Purén, Chile, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 11,284 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 24% 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. Fri 23 Very low 15° · 53 % · 29 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 20° · 44 % · 35 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 22° · 44 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 65 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 47 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 45 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 68 % · 49 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 53 % · 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

11,284
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
8
fires
465
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Purén

  1. 947 ha Purén fire, January 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 1,359 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,468 ha Purén fire, February 2025 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 1,496 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,015 ha Purén fire, February 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,012 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 49 ha Contulmo fire, February 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 5,080 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 6,302 ha Lumaco fire, 1 February 2023 14% of the municipality · 7,678 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 42 ha Lumaco fire, 8 February 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 1,544 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,232 ha Purén fire, January 2021 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 1,229 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 229 ha Lumaco fire, March 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 1,259 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).