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Wildfires in Vilcún

Vilcún, Chile, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 6,222 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.4% 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. Fri 23 Very low 12° · 52 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 16° · 49 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 47 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 17° · 70 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 16° · 53 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 26 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 52 % · 55 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

6,222
hectares burned
4.4 %
of its area
6
fires
1,417
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Vilcún

  1. 1,205 ha Vilcún fire, 26 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,311 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,025 ha Vilcún fire, 26 March 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,048 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,520 ha Vilcún fire, April 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,517 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 203 ha Padre Las Casas fire, March 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,132 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,180 ha Vilcún fire, 16 March 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,180 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,089 ha Vilcún fire, 15 March 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,088 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).