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Wildfires in Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 12,687 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 41% 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. Sat 24 Very low 21° · 47 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 46 % · 30 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 79 % · 29 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 47 % · 40 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 69 % · 36 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 72 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 67 % · 40 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 65 % · 34 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

12,687
hectares burned
41 %
of its area
8
fires
311
km²

How many times has Valparaíso burned?

Valparaíso has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024. The most recent: Valparaíso fire, February 2024, with 4,328 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,687 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,857 hectares, 35 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
5
years with fire
12,687
cumulative ha
10,857
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 Valparaíso

  1. 4,328 ha Valparaíso fire, February 2024 where it started 14% of the municipality · 7,053 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 874 ha Valparaíso fire, March 2022 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 1,028 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 819 ha Quilpué fire, January 2021 2.6% of the municipality · 6,404 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 226 ha Quilpué fire, December 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 1,170 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 525 ha Valparaíso fire, December 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,082 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,769 ha Valparaíso fire, 15 November 2019 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 2,036 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 3,034 ha Valparaíso fire, 15 November 2019 where it started 9.8% of the municipality · 4,755 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,112 ha Valparaíso fire, 4 November 2019 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,108 ha in total · 4 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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