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Wildfires in San Nicolás

San Nicolás, Chile, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 11,658 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% 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. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 37 % · 32 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 23° · 55 % · 30 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 49 % · 34 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 27° · 40 % · 35 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 26° · 55 % · 41 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 24° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 23° · 65 % · 40 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 67 % · 48 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

11,658
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
5
fires
566
km²

How many times has San Nicolás burned?

San Nicolás has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: San Nicolás fire, April 2026, with 1,034 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
5
fires
3
years with fire
11,658
cumulative ha
1 Apr 2026
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 Nicolás

  1. 1,034 ha San Nicolás fire, April 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,099 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,088 ha San Nicolás fire, February 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 1,086 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 196 ha Chillán fire, February 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 1,449 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 7 ha Portezuelo fire, January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 5,595 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 9,333 ha San Nicolás fire, January 2017 where it started 16% 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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