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Wildfires in Vichuquén

Vichuquén, Chile, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 25,473 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 56% 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. Thu 22 Very low 18° · 74 % · 45 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 17° · 57 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 17° · 58 % · 34 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 23° · 56 % · 39 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 73 % · 40 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 21° · 66 % · 41 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 66 % · 36 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 20° · 73 % · 35 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

25,473
hectares burned
56 %
of its area
5
fires
453
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Vichuquén

  1. 1,325 ha Vichuquén fire, February 2026 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 1,322 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,477 ha Vichuquén fire, April 2020 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 2,840 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 10,326 ha Vichuquén fire, 21 January 2017 where it started 23% of the municipality · 10,309 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 9,415 ha Vichuquén fire, 15 January 2017 where it started 21% of the municipality · 64,765 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 1,929 ha Vichuquén fire, December 2016 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 1,924 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).