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Wildfires in Yumbel

Yumbel, Chile, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 18,863 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% 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 17° · 76 % · 44 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 17° · 55 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 21° · 38 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 38 % · 34 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 49 % · 31 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 48 % · 32 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Low 28° · 38 % · 32 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Low 24° · 54 % · 39 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

18,863
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
6
fires
729
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Yumbel

  1. 95 ha Hualqui fire, 19 February 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 1,401 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 4,983 ha Yumbel fire, February 2023 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 5,674 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,177 ha Quillón fire, February 2023 3.0% of the municipality · 31,792 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 7,100 ha Yumbel fire, March 2022 where it started 9.7% of the municipality · 7,088 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 28 ha Hualqui fire, 26 January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 14,653 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 4,480 ha Florida fire, January 2017 6.2% of the municipality · 81,000 ha in total · 14 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).