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Wildfires in Santa Bárbara

Santa Bárbara, Chile, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 1,953 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.6% 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 23° · 28 % · 36 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 19° · 50 % · 33 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 29 % · 46 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 23° · 45 % · 36 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 54 % · 38 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 51 % · 57 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 13° · 92 % · 57 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

1,953
hectares burned
1.6 %
of its area
2
fires
1,252
km²

How many times has Santa Bárbara burned?

Santa Bárbara has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Santa Bárbara fire, March 2025, with 1,042 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,953
cumulative ha
23 Mar 2025
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 Santa Bárbara

  1. 1,042 ha Santa Bárbara fire, March 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,173 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 911 ha Santa Bárbara fire, October 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,078 ha in total · 6 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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