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Wildfires in San Javier

San Javier, Chile, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 47,912 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 36% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 20° · 45 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 36 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 64 % · 34 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 48 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 35 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 49 % · 33 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 56 % · 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

47,912
hectares burned
36 %
of its area
5
fires
1,317
km²

How many times has San Javier burned?

San Javier has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2018, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Maule fire, December 2025, with 11 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 47,912 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 45,341 hectares, 34 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
47,912
cumulative ha
45,341
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 San Javier

  1. 11 ha Maule fire, December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,463 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 3,034 ha San Javier fire, January 2025 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,027 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,720 ha San Javier fire, January 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,711 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 4 ha Empedrado fire, 18 May 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,268 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 42,142 ha San Javier fire, January 2017 where it started 32% of the municipality · 192,854 ha in total · 19 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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