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Wildfires in Arauca

Arauca, Colombia, has had 37 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 83,196 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% 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. Fri 23 Very low 31° · 63 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 80 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 69 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 75 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 71 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 75 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 71 % · 29 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 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

83,196
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
37
fires
5,800
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Arauca

  1. 8,924 ha Cravo Norte fire, 24 February 2026 1.5% of the municipality · 10,759 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,669 ha Arauca fire, March 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,653 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 2,587 ha Arauca fire, 24 February 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,570 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 3,217 ha Arauca fire, 22 February 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,196 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 1,815 ha Arauca fire, 10 April 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,084 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 2,121 ha Arauca fire, 10 April 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,107 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 3,002 ha Arauca fire, March 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,217 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 2,059 ha Arauca fire, January 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,046 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 2,067 ha Arauca fire, February 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,519 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 2,217 ha Arauca fire, February 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,204 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,603 ha Arauca fire, January 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,594 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,747 ha Arauca fire, January 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,998 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 1,822 ha Arauca fire, 26 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,810 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 1,950 ha Arauca fire, 15 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,937 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,718 ha Arauca fire, 13 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,707 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 320 ha Arauca fire, 1 April 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,911 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 1,238 ha Arauca fire, 25 March 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,040 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 2,071 ha Arauca fire, 8 March 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,058 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 1,487 ha Arauquita fire, April 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 4,443 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 2,424 ha Arauca fire, 23 March 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,408 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 2,295 ha Arauca fire, 9 March 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,280 ha in total · 11 days
  22. 2,251 ha Arauca fire, 2 March 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,236 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 2,371 ha Arauca fire, 19 February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,563 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 1,558 ha Arauca fire, 19 February 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,548 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 2,275 ha Arauca fire, 18 February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,261 ha in total · 9 days
  26. 2,296 ha Arauca fire, 17 February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,345 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 3,418 ha Arauca fire, December 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,726 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 2,115 ha Arauca fire, April 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,263 ha in total · 1 day
  29. 2,319 ha Arauca fire, 24 March 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,305 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 1,039 ha Arauca fire, 20 March 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,727 ha in total · 3 days
  31. 19 ha Arauquita fire, March 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,361 ha in total · 7 days
  32. 2,272 ha Arauca fire, 14 March 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,438 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 53 ha Cravo Norte fire, 11 March 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 1,983 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 2,124 ha Arauca fire, January 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,271 ha in total · 8 days
  35. 2,371 ha Arauca fire, 12 March 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,357 ha in total · 1 day
  36. 2,217 ha Arauca fire, 6 March 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,202 ha in total · 5 days
  37. 5,145 ha Arauca fire, 3 March 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,687 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/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).