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Wildfires in San Carlos

San Carlos, Chile, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 968 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 1 Very low 21° · 52 % · 25 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 21° · 48 % · 32 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 16° · 73 % · 37 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 20° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 20° · 47 % · 38 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Low 22° · 42 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Low 26° · 50 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 28° · 53 % · 24 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

968
hectares burned
1.1 %
of its area
3
fires
876
km²

How many times has San Carlos burned?

San Carlos has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2023. The most recent: Cauquenes fire, 3 February 2023, with 497 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
968
cumulative ha
3 Feb 2023
most recent

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 San Carlos

  1. 497 ha Cauquenes fire, 3 February 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 5,394 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 311 ha Ninhue fire, February 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 17,412 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 160 ha San Nicolás fire, January 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 9,479 ha in total · 5 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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