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Wildfires in Quirihue

Quirihue, Chile, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 28,005 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 47% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 11 Moderate 28° · 41 % · 31 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Moderate 27° · 37 % · 32 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Moderate 28° · 31 % · 37 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Moderate 27° · 53 % · 38 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 20° · 61 % · 58 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 18° · 66 % · 43 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 18° · 65 % · 44 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 19° · 65 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Quirihue: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

28,005
hectares burned
47 %
of its area
8
fires
590
km²

How many times has Quirihue burned?

Quirihue has burned 8 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Quirihue fire, June 2025, with 1,066 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 28,005 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 23,170 hectares, 39 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
8
fires
6
years with fire
28,005
cumulative ha
23,170
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 Quirihue

  1. 1,066 ha Quirihue fire, June 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,064 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,045 ha Ninhue fire, February 2023 3.5% of the municipality · 17,412 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 9,776 ha Quirihue fire, February 2023 where it started 17% of the municipality · 10,978 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 368 ha Ninhue fire, September 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 1,168 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,063 ha Quirihue fire, February 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,150 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,427 ha Quirihue fire, May 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 1,252 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 1,033 ha Quirihue fire, January 2018 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 11,530 ha Quirihue fire, 26 January 2017 where it started 20% of the municipality · 11,688 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,125 ha Quirihue fire, 26 January 2017 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,121 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).

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