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Wildfires in Aracataca

Aracataca, Colombia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 12,766 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 1,500 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. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 78 % · 24 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 68 % · 26 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 65 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 60 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 23° · 71 % · 21 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 24° · 80 % · 28 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 25° · 70 % · 29 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 24° · 78 % · 28 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

12,766
hectares burned
7.3 %
of its area
6
fires
1,752
km²

How many times has Aracataca burned?

Aracataca has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2024. The most recent: Aracataca fire, February 2024, with 2,048 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,766 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,490 hectares, 5.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
12,766
cumulative ha
9,490
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,500 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 Colombia →

Fires that entered Aracataca

  1. 2,048 ha Aracataca fire, February 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,036 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 2,515 ha Aracataca fire, 13 March 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,636 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 2,464 ha Aracataca fire, 12 March 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,449 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 4,011 ha Aracataca fire, 5 March 2019 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,987 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 1,635 ha Aracataca fire, 5 March 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,690 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 93 ha Ciénaga fire, March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,830 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/Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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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