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Wildfires in Yungay

Yungay, Chile, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 21,637 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 20° · 48 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 48 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 20° · 60 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 21° · 53 % · 28 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 47 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 63 % · 39 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 23° · 51 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 57 % · 46 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

21,637
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
12
fires
826
km²

How many times has Yungay burned?

Yungay has burned 12 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Yungay fire, 29 March 2026, with 1,408 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 21,637 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,250 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
12
fires
8
years with fire
21,637
cumulative ha
15,250
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 Yungay

  1. 1,408 ha Yungay fire, 29 March 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,445 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 4,113 ha Yungay fire, 26 March 2026 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 3,565 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 4,389 ha Yungay fire, 26 March 2026 where it started 5.3% of the municipality · 4,434 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 1,113 ha Yungay fire, April 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,360 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,472 ha Yungay fire, March 2024 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 1,480 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 3,728 ha Yungay fire, February 2023 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 3,723 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 138 ha Los Ángeles fire, 3 February 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 4,656 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 61 ha Pemuco fire, March 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 1,288 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 1,366 ha Yungay fire, April 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,362 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 1,098 ha Yungay fire, 3 April 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,096 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 1,816 ha Yungay fire, 2 April 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 1,815 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 936 ha Yungay fire, March 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,116 ha in total · 7 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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